At 06:37 PM 4/5/99 +0000, you wrote:
>I once bougth a used 42 Mbyte hard drive, and didn't format it.
>I just deleted all the files, and then loaded MSDOS 6.22.
>I began tranferring DOS programs from my 586.
>After 15 days the DIABLO boot track virus appeared in my 586 and
>several diskets.
>Thougth: if you buy an used computer or disk: first thing to do is:
>a) Run an antivirus, or
>b) Completly format the harddrive.
>
>Alec Lieber < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Now theres a mighty good bit of advice if ever I heard one! I will
certainly keep that in mind in future.
the fortunate thing so far is that the sources of these machines are well
known. This ps/1 is from a friend, it was his childhood computer for
learning, playing games, writing school papers.
The other I bought came from the school system who dumped their entire
network on the market when they upgraded to pentiums and windoze.
anyway, thanks for the most sensible advice!
bye,
Yolanda
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