Re: VIRUS ALERT! ** KINKOS INFECED

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From: MICHAEL E. RUBIN
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1995 00:00

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In article <3vu4tm$kt5@Mercury.mcs.com>, jnapier@MCS.COM (John Napier) wrote:

>Tell your friends. Chances if you are reading this you have your own computer.
>The Kinko's at around 3000 N. Clark  is infected with a virus.
>
>I showed them the virus on their machines and before I left they continued to 
>rent them out.  It is a Microsoft Word enabled virus.
>
>Signs of infection are:
>1) Microsoft word crashing and the document being unrecoverable
>2) Inability to save in any directory except the template directory.

Is the virus limited only to their Windows machines or also their
Macintosh stations?

What has been Kinko's official response to the threat/news of a virus on
their systems?

Michael

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Date: 1995/08/05
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