Re: Virus?




"Sebastian Gottschalk" <seppi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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news.virgin.net wrote:

I have had three computers in for repair lately with the same fault, the
hard drive is messed up not formatted, OS missing, when I use a data
recovery programme everything is there, it seems to be such a coincidence
is
there some virus going around?

Why do you think this is likely to be a virus and not just a simply
failure?
On three different computers?? disk drives are ok once re-formatted


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