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Great story! How were you able to diagnose the issue? I imagine it must have been quite a bit more difficult back then before the advent of Google.

• kragen 4y ago
  Download the shareware version of McAfee ViruScan from a BBS, I imagine, and then maybe buy a virus cleaner? Or, more likely, make an illegal copy of one.
  • cmer 4y ago
    I’m pretty sure McAfee scanned AND cleaned viruses? That’s what I remember anyways.
    • kragen 4y ago
      I think in the time period in question, those were two separate McAfee programs, and only one of them was shareware.
• cmer 4y ago
  It’s been a while so I don’t remember. I was like 8 or 9 years old. I’m assuming someone somewhere told me about viruses and gave me a copy of McAfee. I remember when it all clicked though. All our computers started acting the same with the ping pong ball. The virus was spreading whenever I was inserting a floppy in an infected machine. I had a ton of floppies to clean.