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From: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (Bobmon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Weird PC error messages
Message-ID: <5681@iuvax.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 88 23:21:18 GMT
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{Charles Blair gets weird "FILES WILL BE EXPUNGED" messages when he boots.}

Not only does this sound like someone's goofed on your bootup disk, but it
might well be a virus (hopefully benign).  You might want to seriously
consider checking the DOS files against _known_ good ones (like dist. disks
that have been write-protected and locked away...)

Of course, if it's just "a bootable disk with a terminal emulator" that you
use at school or something, it's not so important.  But in any case, I think
you should NOT use that disk to format other disks, or indeed to write to
other disks if at all possible.