Gotta agree, but if everybody had Macs, they we would get all the virii and
they would be laughing at us.
Larry
On 1/6/01 8:26 AM, "Paul Nelson (artworks@bigfoot.com)"
<ya632@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
> At 1:40 PM -0800 1/5/01, Dave Wood wrote:
>> I have to agree with Barney on the Pretty Park virus. I received an e-mail
>> from one of my regular customers who sends attachments regularly and when I
>> opened it and didn't see anything, I called her and she let me know that she
>> had been notifying everyone in her address book about the virus. It is
>> pretty easy for someone who is computer literate to remove, but could be a
>> bit rough for some people. First you have to remove something from your
>> registry and then reboot and delete the program that causes the problem and
>> also changes it's name. I was able to take care of mine right away, but
>> ended up fixing my customers via modem a couple of days later as she didn't
>> quite understand the directions on how to get rid of it. If you are worried
>> about this virus look it up under "Pretty Park" on the McCaffey (sp?) or
>> Semantic (Norton) site and it explains what it does and how to get rid of
>> it.
>
> If you had a Macintosh, you wouldn't have to worry about 98% of the
> viruses! < grin>
> Paul
>
Larry Macy
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