RE: viruses and the IFS & Merry Christmas

Yes.

Go here:
http://download.mcafee.com/eval/platform-
language.asp?l=0&nz=0&pkgc=VSS&prdc=VS&s=HOME&o=10&z
z=VirusScan&img=vs1.gif

And download the McAfee free evaluation virus protection software.  
Install it and re-boot.
Go here:
http://download.mcafee.com/updates/updates.asp

And download the udated DAT files. Click on "Download Virus DAT 
File (FREE) "

Install it and re-boot.

Run the program.  It will find it.

I don't work for the company.  I'm not affiliated with the company in 
any way.  Just a happy user.

Good Luck,

Gary Kuznitz

On 23 Dec 99, at 10:59, Roger Boucher wrote:

> I am almost certain I remember getting this, because I remember
> double-clicking on something (I know, I know) and nothing 
happened.  I
> looked at the file name and remember thinking how strange it 
was that
> an .exe file would have a name that suggested a picture.  Then I
> deleted the email... but I had already double-clicked!!
> 
> Anyone know how to determine if you have the pic4u.exe virus? 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Barsa, Jr. [mailto:barsa2@ibm.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 12:51 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: viruses and the IFS & Merry Christmas
> 
> 
> At 12:04 PM 12/23/1999 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> With all this talk of viruses, I downloaded the latest McAfee 
today,
> and all was clean.
> 
> Al
> 
> 
> 
> Al, 
> 
> pic4u.exe was on the TV news the other night.  It comes as an
> attachment on your e-mail. You click on it and absolutely nothing
> happens.  They then changed the PC's clock to 11:59:30, 
12/31/1999 and
> we watched.  At midnight the screen went black and the person 
said "We
> can tell you from experience that the disk drive in this machine is
> now empty.  pic4u.exe is a very nasty virus." 
> 
> Merry Christmas to all, and a Thousand More.
> _______________________
> Booth Martin
> boothm@earth.goddard.edu
> http://www.spy.net/~booth <http://www.spy.net/~booth> 
> _______________________ 
> 
> 
> "Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@ibm.net> 
> Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com 
> 
> 12/23/1999 11:21 AM 
> Please respond to MIDRANGE-L 
> 
>         To:        MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com 
>         cc:        
>         Subject:        Re: viruses and the IFS & Merry Christmas 
> 
> At 09:05 PM 12/22/1999 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> We hear that the AS/400 has never had a virus. Is this true for the
> IFS? 
> 
> 
> IMHO, the AS/400 natively is virus proof.  It is clearly possible for
> the IFS to be a carrier of a virus.
> 
>  Is there some thing that prevents the IFS from being trashed by
>  pic4u.exe
> for instance? 
> 
> Booth, I don't know what this program is.
> 
> Merry Christmas to all, and a have a Happy (Uneventful) New 
Years.
> 
> Al
> 
> 
> 
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