Quote from Forum Archives on June 23, 2000, 2:36 am

Posted by: sonforu <sonforu@...>

Hello Art,
Look here and see if there is an answer for you.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Art Inion <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 2:36 AM
Subject: [CCMag] Excel doing doing queer things

> Hullo.
>
> I have this queer thing happening at the office with MS-Excel 97.
Everytime it is opened, it opens other
> files/workbooks with it. I suspect it is a macro virus but PC-Cillin with
the latest updated patterns did not detect a
> thing with Excel. It detected a trojan virus named Pretty Park in file
FILES32.VXD instead. As it is a system file, it
> cannot clean or delete it. Tried to find a replacement file for this in
the office but could not. As much as possible, I
> would like to avoid formatting the hard drive and installing everything.
I'd rather do it as a last resort.
>
> System info.:
> Windows 98
> Office 97 Proffessional Suite
> PC-Cillin 6
> 64 MB RAM
> 2.1 GB HDD
> Fast Ethernet network card (Probably D-Link, not sure. It is installed in
most of our computers).
>
> Appreciate very much your help on this one.
>
> Art
>
>
>
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