Word: computerize
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This is the first outbreak of this devastating computer virus. While similar viruses can be triggered every month, Chernobyl was set for a particular day, this April 26, the thirteenth anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
Majmudar, whose these is due today, said he wasted an entire day dealing with the problem and scanning the single hard copy of his thesis into a working computer.
According to the CERT Welside the virus, which only affects computers running Windows 95 or 98, overwrites part of a computer's hard drive with random data. This leads the computer to think that the hard drive is empty, preventing a user from accessing the drive's files.
Robert T. Dennis '02, whose computer froze early Monday morning while he was working on a paper for Expository Writing, said some of his Thayer entryway-mates told him there may be away to save his files.
As his roommate, entryway-mates, and pre-froshwatched, he tried to restart his computer and gotonly a blank screen with the message, "Disk BootFailure," he said.