Re: Friday the thirteenth virus

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From: Gene Edward Johannsen
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1989 00:28

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In article <1989Oct13.150324.19152@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
>Is anybody out there taking this Friday 13 virus seriously? Has anybody
>encountered it yet? What was the result?
>
>Just curious, it has been getting media hype the past couple of days, it was
>even on ABC news.

The University of Oklahoma took it seriouisly.  Our PC lab was recently beseiged
by the Friday the 13th virus, and all out war was declared.  After we were done,
though, our machines were clean and protected long before the 13th.  We still
held our breath, but everything came out okay.

Gene

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From: gejohann@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Gene Edward Johannsen)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Friday the thirteenth virus
Message-ID: <1989Oct15.002809.6090@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 89 00:28:09 GMT
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