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Subject: Re: Virus

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 10:23:11 12/02/99

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On December 02, 1999 at 10:34:17, Eugenio Castillo wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>today at 12:02 i have receive an email from somebody well known in this chess
>circle. The email has an attached .exe file with some zipped interesting docs.
>
>Executing it gives an error and it DESTROY all my .C and .H files of my hardisk.
>No one of my antivirus detect anything. I have test it in another computer and
>it do the same.
>
>Naturally I've copies of all my works, but i suposse I need to format my PC.
>
>I have send an email to the person who write me the message to confirmate it.
>I'm still waiting answer.
>
>If this wasn't an accident I can think more than one of us can receive it too,
>be ware.
>
>Eugenio Castillo.

	While I admire Bill Gates as the best business man in the world, I am glad I do
not use any MS software. Those new viruses and worms attack the weak points of
Windows and other MS programs. I am sure Bill is fully aware and doing nothing
on purpose.
	Still, Windows is the operating system of choice to develop chess engines.
José.



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