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Article #303Re: Keyboard mystery...
From: schuster
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 00:00
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I would have to say it is the former. The program was called "NoVowels." > Years ago there was a silly little anthology of apps called, > Stupid Mac Tricks (or somthing like that). One of the apps was a > prankster app designed to open at startup. The app would remain invisible > and act like a virus, eliminating all vowels on the keyboard. Very > annoying... very frustrating... very silly. > The other possability is that you've downloaded a virus. This > program is extremely simple to write and to hide... so if you've downloaded > any text files, small apps, or misc. files off the internet lately it's > very likely that one of them was a virus. > I'd first check your startup folder for anything that doesn't > belong in there, and then scan your drives with a virus checker. > > : Any help appreciated > : Gunnar > > Hope that helps. > > -Kevin Stone > Stone Entertainment
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10c648,1c4fd279a805e93f X-Google-Attributes: gid10c648,public X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,1c4fd279a805e93f X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public X-Google-Thread: 10e148,1c4fd279a805e93f X-Google-Attributes: gid10e148,public X-Google-Thread: 1156c9,1c4fd279a805e93f X-Google-Attributes: gid1156c9,public From: schuster@ctaz.com Subject: Re: Keyboard mystery... Date: 1997/05/16 Message-ID: <337CD467.3963@ctaz.com> X-Deja-AN: 242996378 References: <AF9B9CF8966825F68@powrd.demon.co.uk> <5l5gkr$ltk@enet1.enetis.net> Organization: Citizens Utility Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,demon.tech.mac