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From: mmccann@hubcap.UUCP (Mike McCann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Its not a virus but what is it?
Keywords: Bouncing Ball
Message-ID: <4352@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 89 19:44:29 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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The gentleman in charge of one of our IBM PC labs here on campus brought
something to my attention that I had never seen before.  Its a
virus-like appearance of a diamond shaped ball which bounces around on
your screen.  It doesnt delete any files or change any data.  Its just a
pain.  If you install DOS again, it goes away but he couldnt find the
file that was causing the problem.  I know this is just something simple
that is being over looked but what is it???  Just some sort of
do-nothing screen saver or a virus-like nuisance?

Thanks for any and all comments,

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*  Thanks to ALL for the help on my MKS Toolkit problem.      *
*  A special thanks to Mortice Kern Systems for the info      *
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