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From: "Carolyn (Parsons) Smedley" <>
Subject: Re: [ARPOLK] Quick Restore
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:17:16 -0700


Cynthia, I had mine come through an email message. I had the McAfee Virus
shield, and it alerted me to "ActiveX" virus, but my McAfee Virus shield
program was outdated, and did not know how to get rid of the KAK worm virus,
and even though I deleted the message completely, it did not shield my
drivers and programs.

I would recommend everyone who has genealogy programs to store them in a
"Save driver" (like mine was "driver D") so if this happens, they have
access to their familytrees. The "Quick Restore" took my computer back to
it's original factory settings and did away with all my software programs.
I am in the process of reinstalling those, reconnected to the internet and
mail. Thankfully, I had good advice and was able to save all my addresses
by storing them in the "D" hard drive. I was afraid I would lose all this
information when I sent the email out this a.m.

Thanks for your response.

Carolyn (Parsons) Smedley



-----Original Message-----
From: Cynthia Forde <>
To: <>
Date: Friday, October 20, 2000 6:39 AM
Subject: Re: [ARPOLK] Quick Restore


>Carolyn:
>
>How did you clear out your virus? Mine was attached to
>Windows/Start/Programs/Startup. It was caught immediately and
quarantined
>by Norton Utilities. It might be helpful for everyone else on list if they
>knew what to check for and how to eliminate it.
>
>Blessings, CF
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Carolyn (Parsons) Smedley" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 6:09 AM
>Subject: [ARPOLK] Quick Restore
>
>
>> I probably am going to have to do a quick restore on my computer. A KAK
>worm came in an has corrupted a lot of my disk data. If you want to stay
in
>my address book, please write me back in about two days after the computer
>technician comes in and clears this problem up.
>>
>> I do not have the VIRUS now, as it has been cleared out, but is still
>causing me problem to data.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Carolyn Smedley
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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