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Date:	Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:26:40 PST7
From:	sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro)
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Anti-Virus program

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>Has anybody heard of an OS2 system being infected with a virus lately?
>Just about all of them in the wild are microsoft macro infectors. You'd
>need to be really unlucky to get an old boot virus. You're probably
>better off spending that money on Worldcom stock.

On a routine virus check, I found that a Microsoft Word document that
someone had sent me was infected. The anti-virus program detected the
virus and disinfected the document file.

I was glad I caught it before I sent it on to someone else.

Sandy

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