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From: jdm@boulder.Colorado.EDU (James D. Meiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Strange New Crash with Dollars and $ense
Summary: Suddenly D&$ gives System error 2 or 10
Keywords: Dollars and $ense, System Error, Virus
Message-ID: <12030@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 24 Sep 89 18:26:21 GMT
Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU
Reply-To: jdm@boulder.Colorado.EDU (James D. Meiss)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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	Mac SE 20
	System 6.02
	Dollars and $ense 4.1B

	I've been using Dollars and $ense, more or less successfully
for several years. Suddenly I'm getting system error 2 or 10 each time
I try to input a new or edit an old transaction.
	I was infected by nVir recently (but am now clean according to
Disinfectant), so I'm pretty paranoid, so here's
what I did:
	1) put a brand new system and finder on my SE 20's hard disk
	2) Zapped the PRAM
	3) Created a brand new D&$ file

To no avail...still crashes. So I did the following:
	1) Created a brand new floppy with new system
	2) Copied a brand new D&$ application onto the floppy from 
	the original, locked disk
	2) Started up from the floppy
	3) Dismounted the hard disk

To no avail....still crashes.
I can't possibly see how a pristine system and pristine version of D&$ could
crash!!! Maybe the ROM of my Mac has gone bad :(. However nothing else seems
to crash.
	It seems to be crashing someplace in TextEdit. I've tried to look at it
with TMON, but TMON usually gets trashed in the crash as well!

	Any suggestions?

			in Desperation,
			Jim Meiss
			jdm@euclid.colorado.edu