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Anti-Virus Research experts have announced the birth of a new computer
virus today. The virus, which they have dubbed "Spel Checkar," like
most new viruses, spreads threw an e-mail attachment, called "spellfix.exe." When
run, the attachment will scan the user's computer, and if any version
of Microsoft Office is detected, it will delete all its spell checking
softwear, and replace it with garbage files, mostly pictures of Dustin
Diamond or Christina Aguilera MP3s.
While this viruses' victims are reduced to Office Users, people
who prefer StarOffice or WordPerfect can soon expect veriations of
this virus that will afect them. Even though this type of virus is
not completely harmful to the computer istelf, experts estimate it
will decreese productevity in companys all around the wordl. Many
bankrupting companies are allready blaming this new virus for their
downfall.
It has been discovered that, in some ocassions, the the grammar
cheker has also been deleted, but the probibility of this hapening
has not yet been disifered. "The code has been very well ritten," says
Anti-virus expert Harold Marks. "It does many diferrent mathemathical
operation before determening what parts of the spell/grammer checker
it will remove."
It has not yet been proveden, but som experts beleive taht this
this virus can also, telephatically, alter the user's mind so tehy
maek mor typng misteaks. Pepole who half been afectted bye the virus
say it becomes harder and harder too type. Scheptics to this theory,
othesr say those "victims" are jsut "lazy idiot who
cant' type and hav become two dependant on spell-cheking sotfware." The
asnwer to to this dilemma is stil a mistery.
It are is importent to update virus defenitions four all diferent
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