[ILUG] destruction

[jo]

AH well, this just shows once more how horrifically bad windows is, but i
really hope everyones pooters can be fixed!(un)Luckily my pooter got
completely wrecked last week and as we speak it is having it's HDD
formatted. If i had the chernobyl virus, i'll never know *sob*
jo

On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Robert Sweetnam wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Moloney, Mark <Mark.Moloney at emea.gateway.com>
> To: 'ILUG' <ilug at linux.ie>
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 12:56 PM
> Subject: RE: [ILUG] destruction
> 
> 
> > Ah, yes, I've come across this a couple of times this morning already. I
> > never heard of it before today. Very cool - only affects Win95 & Win98.
> Heh
> > heh heh...
> >
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > Mark.Moloney at emea.gateway.com
> > The harder you try, the luckier you get
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John P. Looney [mailto:valen at redbrick.dcu.ie]
> > Sent: 26 April 1999 12:30
> > To: Irish LUG list
> > Subject: [ILUG] destruction
> >
> >
> >  So, did many people get bitten by that Chernobyl.cih virus ? Loads of
> > people in DCU have lost stuff - it waited until today, and then trashed
> the
> > BIOS, the boot sector, partition table & the first few megs of the FAT.
> >
> >  If you dual boot windows....think very hard before rebooting into it
> > today, unless it's off a virus checking floppy...
> >
> >  Damn, I'd hate to have to use Windows.
> >
> > Kate
> >
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> > "Those who do not remember history, are doomed to repeat it, especially if
> > they change the addressing modes, or wordsize of their architechture"'
> >  - Peter Van Der Linden
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