Doom told me that although she was aware of one virus, the other was new to her. After a while, you can drive yourself and your friends crazy trying to figure out where an infection came from. This experience did have its positive aspects. I upgraded my PC from Microsof Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 and installed all new 32-bit software. That's good news for Bill Gates and the software industry.
Viral infections are a shot in the arm for the computer market.
To keep the technology stocks from gaining another 1,000 points, I installed new antivirus software. The other good news is that I got rid of a lot of e-mail messages, documents, databases, spreadsheets and financial records I'd accumulated over the months. So if you are reading this and wondering why I haven't returned that message you sent several months ago, wonder no more. Figuring that this may happen again, I began to look for more convenient backup strategies. The tape drive is inexpensive but ever so slooooow.