Virus hit me!

From: Paul G. Taylor (pault@everfoodingr.com)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 09:47:26 PST

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    Just to let you folks know, my son's computer was hit by PrettyPark a few
    days ago, and he didn't even realize that he had opened the attachment. I
    realized it when it hit my work computer, but luckily, I knew what it was
    and immediately deleted it. However, my son's computer was infected, and
    when I ran an updated scan with Norton, Norton found the FILES32.vxd file as
    infected. However, Norton could not repair it, so I (ugh!) deleted the
    file. Then, no application in my computer would open! I tried everything,
    and have ended up doing an fdisk and reformatting the drive. Luckily, there
    was'nt much data on the hard drive that had to be saved. Apparently, the
    damage done to the registry caused the problem. I wish that I had had
    Fernando's info then! I didn't find it on Norton at that time. Moral:
    don't delete that file if there is another way!

    Best regards,

    Paul G. Taylor
    Evergreen Food Ingredients
    2210 Black Lake Blvd. S.W.
    Olympia, WA 98512-5604
    Phone: (360)754-1718; Fax: (360)754-1704
    E-mail: pault@everfoodingr.com



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