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Nasty Virus - Watch out
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04/06/2001 17:13:57
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Visual FoxPro
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>Unfortunately - the virus seems to have worked its way into our backup and was somewhat time or date activated, thus corrupting as you reinstate. Does not matter what files you select. We have gone and purchased some software, FoxFix that decompiles exe into the files original state. (I hope, otherwise anyone got a job for me, 7 years of work gone.) Great monday, don't you think.
>The sucker that sent it to us, will not return phone calls nor email.
>
Larry

As mentioned elsewhere, the program named is part of Win98.

The only way a WSH virus gets activated is to "open" as opposed to "edit" it. One thing I'd strongly recommend is for you to check out the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run registry key. Find the files mentioned therein and check them to see when they were created. If you find on that was created on the date the virus was launched, you've probably found the real culprit. I doubt if it's wormed its way into your backups. There may be a program running that does the corruption when you try to restore.
George

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