on 7/2/05 5:44 PM, The Real Seed Catalogue at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yep, I've done mac support since 1989, starting at college. We > were badly hit by viruses from time to time under late OS 6 (& I > think early 7), as you can imagine - loads of students all runnign > their OS off floppies that they swapped more often than bedmates. . . > weekly scans with disinfectant fixed it. > > Since then, I've been hit twice more. Once was only a couple of > years ago, I think on 8.5 (or was it still 7.5.5? - which was pretty > good really) . This was an evil ***er that lurked in your system and > only trashed the HD if you booted at a certain time of a certain day > of a certain month. > > Since then I've seen nothing.(Now on 9.1) I have a copy of Virex > antivirus program (not norton, thank god) but not actually active > and only ever run it about twice a year when I'm feeling paranoid!
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