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From: todd@net1.ucsd.edu (Todd Goodman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Weird PC error messages
Message-ID: <4549@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Date: 27 Jan 88 21:37:27 GMT
References: <3237@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
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In article <3237@sphinx.uchicago.edu> cjdb@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Charles Blair) writes:
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<On booting an IBM PC I get the following error message:
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<SYSTEM ERROR
<982734 [or 45698]
<ALL FILES WILL BE EXPUNGED ...
<GOODBYE
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<This doesn't sound like a DOS error message, and I can't find it in my
<XT technical reference. Could anyone explain it to me?
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<I should point out that in fact no files are expunged, and the
<application I am launching runs fine (it's communications software).
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<Responses via e-mail preferred.
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<Thanks.
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          QUARANTINE THIS PERSON!!!!!!!

	  They're infected.  

	  Get the gun Hoss, we gots ta put dat poor 'puter outta ours misery.

	  I hope this was a joke posting.  If not, then it looks like your
computer was infected with a virus.  Are you the only one with access to the
machine, or can others muck with it?  What software have you recently used that
may be suspect?
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