Forum Archive Index - November 2001

["Phyllis Bergquist" <phyl@clear.net.nz>]

Speaking personally you have my utmost sympathy.   As one who is not enormously computer literate and who had a similar happening.    Fortunately a colleague phoned me instantly and I (How fortunate I was)  had a good friend whom I phoned and he helped through getting a virus killer.   That one got through Nortons so now I update Nortons like I brush my teeth!!!!!!!.    I never found out where it came from.   Good luck from now on to you  Phyllis.

----- Original Message -----

From: nicholas cummings

To: sharechat@sharechat.co.nz

Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 7:38 PM

Subject: [sharechat] Cleared the virus

          Firstly i would like to apologise to anybody who has had the

misfortune to pick up this evil little beast via a message sent from this

computer  (by the worm not me)

       Please remember though i did not invent this thing i picked it up just like you

guys did , ie from an email from a sharechat subscribers email. Paul frost

in my case.

           It proved very difficult to eradicate, i ended up having to totally

reformat the hard drive, the infected file couldnt be repaired or removed.

       The mistake i made was not upgrading to outlook 6 or keeping my security

up to date. Both these things have now been rectified. I would of been on

to apologise before but my comp has been out of action until now.

          I urge you all though try not to blame me personally,  i have been apologising all day to people i have infected, and am completly fed up with the whole buisness. I came so close to threowing the comp out the window, its

been the most frustrating 24 hours i can remember

 

   Nick