ve3iut,try this Usenet computer help news group.(I think it's a Usenet
news group)
alt.privacy.spyware
I have known of that news group for at least a year or more.Maybe
somebody in there can help you with your computer problem.
cuhulin

I reckon useing computers on the intenet is like "useing" them wimmins
anywhere you find them.You can get your ass in trouble sometimes :{)
cuhulin

wrote:

Dan wrote:
In article .com,
wrote:

Dan wrote:
In article
. com,
wrote:

I ahve only been on rec.ra this week and was scanning the posts
on
Monday ...

You're nuts. You can't "get a virus" from reading text
messages.

If you actually got a virus, you got it somewhere else, not from
reading
messages here.

Get a clue.

Dan


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I hadn't been anywhere else, and I got it again from the same post.
Still interested in useful clues.......73........

Here's a clue - text messages can *not* give you a "virus". *If*
the
message contains a binary attachment, and *if* you save it, and *if*
you
then execute it, then it can happen.

But not from just reading plain text messages.

Dan
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It did it again today on rec.radio.shwve. 400meg of memory used up in
an instant. I did the usual clean-up routines mentioned above and later
surfed the net, looked through ebay, paid some bills, read lots of
mail, sent some...the computer worked flawlessly. However, on returning
to rec.radio, this time I went through AOL wondering if their virus
protection (McAfee) would make any difference. I looked around the site
as per usual but this time nothing went wrong. Is it the AOL filters
that make a difference or has the perp gone to supper? Or is it
something else? All I know is what happened and these are the facts:
1. The thing (I am unsure what it is) uses up 400 mb of memory and
freezes the computer in an instant.
2. It only does it when I am reading rec.radio.shortwave. No other
sites are affected.
3. It gets by Norton, Sygate, Ad-Aware, and Spybot.
4. The above programs clean it up, ready for the next round.
5. No attachments or links are opened.
6. I have read rec.radio for years using Netscape and the same computer
without any problem.

Is it a program bug somewhere? Has anyone else been affected? Is it a
deep virus that emerges for some purpose? And why only rec.radio? Maybe
some mysteries are too deep for the human mind to fathom.

So, as a work-around, I can comfortably access the site through AOL and
move on to other things: I just thought that some of the group
hot-shots would recognize the virus (if it is a virus) but it's not a
big deal. The thing is that there is no point in saying that because of
this and that it could not happen. It DOES happen exactly the way I
described. Also, I realize that this is not a computer forum but thanks
to those who offered their ideas....73.......ken........end.....

Odds are the file your news reader holds the rec.radio.shortwave headers in was
corrupted. (could have been anything including a power spike while the computer
was writing to the drive) Try deleting rec.radio.shortwave from your
newsgroups, close the reader, reopen it, and resubscribe. That'll probably fix
it.

I think it is safe to say that the problem did not originate in
rec.radio as no one else seems to have been affected. ( unless they are
still trying to get their crashed computers to run). I will follow up
on the suggestions and look for a corruption (lots of them on this
site)
and renew likely programs. In the meantime AOL works fine on this site
even though it is routed through the same Sympatico (Bell) newsgroup
server as Netscape. I am going to switch to my Mac G3/266 for a while
to see how it does. Ain't computers fun!

Problem Fixed. I found a "general protection fault" in KRNL 386.exe at
0001:000075 a2. I Reloaded and the problem went away. Curious that only
rec.radio was affected but I have no intention of digging deeper.
thanks to all...ken...