Word: wordperfect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...virus, which attaches itself to and ruins IBM files with ".EXE" and ".COM" suffixes, has often been found infecting the popular word processing program Wordperfect, Samenfeld said...
...even five of our computers have Wordperfect cleared, that's a pretty traumatic thing for students who have papers to write," Amundson said...
...Students are walking around with disks with infected Wordperfect programs," Samenfeld said. "It is an easy access point for the virus. We were successful in clearing the virus out of the lab, but that doesn't mean there aren't students who have it on their disks or on their hard drives...
Often those calls go unanswered. Ashton-Tate, the Torrance, Calif., publisher of Framework, has 42 full-time service representatives who take 1,100 telephone calls a day; Microsoft's 50 operators field 1,800. The current ambitious goal of WordPerfect is to have its 70 support staffers answer at least half of its 1,500 daily calls. Says Adam Osborne, president of Paperback Software: "You have a better chance of winning the lottery than of getting through on some toll-free lines...