Details may be obtained from the April 29 issue of Bits and Bytes or by calling the Help Desk. Some users may find that all the messages in their mailboxes and folders are now marked as new, as some of the message counters were corrupted as a result of the file system problems. Cause determined to be flooded manhole. Problem traced to GTE North equipment and GTE North technicians have been notified. The EIS Help Desk received about 20 reports of problems resulting from the Chernobyl virus.
Prevention is the best medicine for virus infections.
In the case of the Chernobyl virus, you need to make sure the virus is not active in memory before you attempt to scan, or the scanning process itself may infect every file it scans. Such hoaxes serve no useful purpose, but can clog networks and mail systems.