Jersey Devil
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Mon Mar-30-09 05:44 PM
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| 6. I once bought a brand new computer with a virus on it |
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Edited on Mon Mar-30-09 05:45 PM by Jersey Devil
Years ago I bought a Leading Edge Computer new and about a month after it came I got snail mail from Leading Edge with a disk containing McAfee Antirvirus informing me that my computer was infected with the Michaelangelo virus, which was programmed to erase the hard drive on Michaelangelo's birthday (March 6). I ran the McAfee program and sure enough it was there and removed by McAfee.
Apparently some idiot at Leading Edge who made the master hard drives for their computers brought a disk to work with games on it to play that had the virus on it.
Never ran a computer without antivirus ever since. As I recall that was about 1986-88.
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