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From: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Anyone infected by "Brain" virus?
Message-ID: <1300@micomvax.UUCP>
Date: 26 Sep 88 16:53:06 GMT
References: <10111@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Organization: Philips Electronics Ltd. (TDS - Montreal) St. Laurent QC, Canada
Lines: 23

In article <10111@eddie.MIT.EDU> zermelo@eddie.MIT.EDU (L Richard Duffy) writes:
 >....  Well, later that afternoon my friend noticed
 >that the volume label on one of his floppies at work had been somehow
 >changed to "(c) Brain", and he also found a message giving the phone
 >number in Pakistan for this company (which I gather will decontaminate
 >your software for a fee).
 >
 >The friend asked me for advice; he and his colleagues have enormous
 >amounts of pirated stuff which they use with their extensive databases,
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^            
 >etc.  Obviously he's afraid that data might start evaporating or 
 >changing sometime soon, and wants any and all advice.

Hey!  At last!  A virus that appears to have done the world some good -
evaporate away dear data!

(no...no smiley face)

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Ray Dunn.                      |   UUCP: ..!philabs!micomvax!ray
Philips Electronics Ltd.       |   TEL : (514) 744-8200   Ext: 2347
600 Dr Frederik Philips Blvd   |   FAX : (514) 744-6455
St Laurent. Quebec.  H4M 2S9   |   TLX : 05-824090