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From:	"Bill Marcum" <bmarcum AT iglou DOT com>
Organization:	Llewellyn's Ming Vase Shuffleboard League
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:09:41 +0500
Subject:	Re: Antigen VirusScan found =*.bat file
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> I used Norton AV 2002 on my computer and did not get a hit on this
> *.bat bug. I do have a message from Joe Smith and it has an attachment
> which is not mentioned in the body of the message.  Is this the
> location of the bug?
> 
Nothing to worry about, as far as I could tell.
It appears that one of the list members has anti-virus software 
configured to reject any attached .bat file.  Another member made a 
humorous(?) reply to the automated warning: 
> computer must be exterminated
> immediately.will proceed to format all disk drives starting with 
> drive C

Joe Smith's message dated Mon, 4 Mar 2002 08:47:59 contained a 
config.sys, an autoexec.bat, and output of a "MEM" command, and they 
were mentioned in the body of the message.  In other words, nothing 
unusual for a message from a user asking for help with DOS.

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