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Re: MIS-BEHAVING MOUSE/CURSOR

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From: George Woodside
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1989 11:34
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In article <8909180439.AA23485@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu> ia4@CUNIXD.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Imran Anwar) writes:
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>Closing Word and going into the Uniterm folder resulted in the cursor movements
>being reversed from those of the mouse in the up/down direction though staying
>correct in the left/right direction. Had to reboot.
>
>Any logical reasons for this? Solution?

This symptom is typical of a known ST virus.

Get out your favorite virus detect/kill utility and start checking
your disks. This virus (if that's what it is) resides on the boot sector
of floppy disks only. It does not corrupt files, damage disks, or destroy
anything except disks which must have their own executable boot sectors.
Those disks are rendered useless since the virus overwrites the boot sector
with itself.

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*George R. Woodside - Citicorp/TTI - Santa Monica, CA 
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From: woodside@ttidca.TTI.COM (George Woodside)
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Subject: Re: MIS-BEHAVING MOUSE/CURSOR
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Date: 18 Sep 89 11:34:14 GMT
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