Gene Heskett wrote:

Somewhat interesting Paul, I got the attachments from JC here, and they were not impeded by something called GroupShield. I looked them over with kwrite and they looked like the real thing. No new bugbear virii in them, nor any copyright/license notices.

No, those were not the virus.  Just useful .bat files.
But of course, in some sense, making a windows backup and restoring
it is also a way to spread virii.   :-)

Whoever's filter triggered on them must have been trained to reject the .bat extension. A very wise move for windose lusers. :)

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