OpenEuphoria

Re: WARNING!

• Posted by John Worthington <woodmage at EARTHLINK.NET> Oct 06, 1998
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> Hey, it only ran for a sec before i stopped it...i haven't shut my
> computer off yet--should i reinstall windows or what?
> >  That last program Nate sent, "snake.exe", will delete all Windows
> > files on your computer.DO NOT RUN THIS FILE! Hopefully other
> > Euphorians are smarter than me, and have already ignored the
> > file. -molasses PS Now can we throw him off?

  I hope this gets to you in time.  No, you MAY not have to reinstall
Windows.  First, see if you still have the MSDOS.SYS and IO.SYS and such
files because it also kills them (sometimes?) apparently.  Be aware you
may have to tell Windoze to let you see hidden files for this.  If you
DO have them, you might be alright.  It would be time to make an orderly
backup of any programs you've installed, the system directory and a few
other dirs - anything under windows that you need, really.  Remember if
you have win95, you need to back up your registry too for this.  Then
you can re-install Win and do a restore.  If you DO NOT have the files
in your root dir, then all might still not be lost if you have any
system disk.  Simply booting from it then using a sys command MAY work.
Once again, though, after that, it's time to re-do windoze.  It may not
prove to be necessary, but it's probably a good idea.  Hope this helps
you.

\/\/ood/\/\age (somebody who's good enough at killing his computer that
he's gotten good at fixing it by accident)