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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...
Eagle Scout. After all that, it was no surprise that Major Gagarin's authorized biography read as if it had been manufactured to fit the occasion. What was released to a curious world was a wordperfect picture of the "new Soviet man" -it might well have described a U.S. Eagle Scout from Iowa. Yuri was born on a collective farm near the small town of Gzhatsk, 100 miles west of Moscow. The young boy shone in the local school, and after completing the sixth grade, he was sent to manual training school in a Moscow suburb. He graduated...