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To: Steve 667 who wrote (15768)	10/20/2000 4:49:17 AM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (1) of 60323

Steve, when you responded to Elizabeth (and you did it quite well I must say), it reminded me of something that happened here at SI several years back. Perhaps you could explain. In those days, my email and a "spare" copy of Windows was sitting on my "D:" drive. I apparently ticked somebody off (some people just don't have a sense of humor) and, a few hours later, my PC would not boot. Norton Antivirus wouldn't run. I had been "hacked". I considered myself lucky that all my SI activity was on drive D: and that C: remained intact. I went off-line and used a few utilities and noticed that the spare Windows directory on "D:" had been totally clobbered. Norton was turned to dust. I deleted the offending directories, reinstalled. and everything came up just fine. Since then, I have made it a practice to burn CD-Rs of my C: drive so that I could reload them in minutes on any PC. But I never knew the details of what that fellow did to bring my PC to its knees. Tech wizard that you are ... Could you explain to me what the fellow did to "kill" my PC via SI? Craig

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