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krossfyter

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Jan 13, 2002
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a friend of mine is running os9 on her work puter.

she got a virus the other day.

she doesnt get on the net there... hasnt been on for abouta month and a half... no email... nothing external hooked up to it, no disk, no floppy, no network.. NOTHING... just the mac and her.

i was like "what the hell"

she still got a virus.

she says as follows:
" it made all my programs fail and crash and then it wouldnt open them.. it even crashed norton. It installed a lost and found folder on my harddrive and some funky thing in the prefs folder that started with the word panic and was followed by alot of code. It f**ked up everything, but i deleted those files and disk doctored the computer and its working fine again "



any clue what this was guys? i just want to know... for future note.
 
generally when these things happen, it's a string of system errors and crashes that's misinterpreted. tho it's possible she had a virus, and a new/good one at that, so new even symantec hasn't cought it (or she didn't update virus defs)... anyway, it's something that's so rare that it's not worth worrying about. But i always liked norton for virus protection, symantec has a pretty good unit for virus treatment...

pnw
 
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