I returned my 7600 to the shop to have RAM installed. This was before I started taking apart computers myself. They apparently attached an external drive and ran Norton's even though I did not ask them to. However, their drive must have been infected because when I fired up the computer back at home, many of my applications were already rendered inoperable by the nVira virus, which was caught by a Virex scan.
Why didn't Virex work in the shop? Being a newbie, I had put Virex on the least invasive settings - the one omitted being "scan external drives". Since I owned no external drives at the time, I turned that off. Little did I know that one would be used on it in the shop. Had I left that setting turned on, the shop would have avoided 100's of phone calls from angry users who also found their computers infected. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
