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From: smcafee@jarthur.claremont.edu (Sean McAfee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Apple virus?
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Date: 24 Apr 91 06:34:59 GMT
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My apologies is this has been discussed here before; the sheer volume of
articles on this newsgroup prevents me from reading it more than
sporadically.  Anyhow:  within the last few weeks I have been having a
problem with my communications software: ProTerm version 2.1.  At
irritatingly regular frequencies when using ProTerm, my keyboard has either
(a) locked up completely, and/or (b) spontaneously sent a large number of the
same character to the mainframe to which I was connected, on one occasion
deleting two lines of a file I was editing with Jove.  Both of these
conditions typically necessitate turning the power off and restarting; the
keyboard freeze extends to the control-open apple-reset combination.
Lately, I can count on at least one of these maladies striking my computer
at least every half-hour; in fact, it happened twice while I was writing
this very article (!).

Actually, come to think of it, this problem is not entirely restricted to
ProTerm; a few weeks ago when the problem was first manifesting itself, the
keyboard froze when I was running SoundSmith.  This was odd, because while
the keyboard was completely frozen, the mouse, which runs through the
keyboard, was functioning normally.

Is this some kind of virus?  If so, how can I get rid of it?

Thanks for any help,

Sean McAfee
smcafee@jarthur.claremont.eduuuuuuuu