30 Dec
1998
30 Dec
'98
2:23 a.m.
HI,
I loaded Canon Creative 2 onto my Packard Bell Cyrix 300 and got Hare 7756
from it. Slowed this computer down to slower than my
IBM PCjr. I booted from
my boot disk that I made when I first got my computer and
used my Windows98
CD to run IRIS Antivirus and it cleaned the hard drive just fine.
I sent the CD back to Canon and they gave me Canon Creative 4 free.
On the PCjr, I picked up some floppies from the Salvation Army Store in
Binghamton, NY and ran a program and got STONED on my computer. I shut it
off and rebotted and ran my Antivirus on all the disks I have for the Jr.
This process took me about 5 hours and came up with no more virus's, boy was
I glad.
On the PCjr, I use DOS 6.22 and MSAV. I also scan ALL disks and CD ROMs now
no matter where they are from.
John Amirault
Joe wrote:
At 12:14 AM 12/30/98 +0000, you wrote:
It's not unheard-of for computer shops to
re-shrink-wrap software that's
been returned by a customer. And if that customer's PC has a virus....
So it is worth virus-checking installation _floppy_ disks, just in case.
Yes, and at one time (1988?) there was a virus on the OS disks that
Leading Edge supplied with their computers so even the manufacturers get
caught once in a while. You should check EVERY disk that you get.
Joe