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I read about a paper clip virus
Monday, February 18, 2002 at 7:23 am
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Posted by CoolSights2000 (983 messages posted)

maybe someone can steer you to the virus name
the errors where caused by the virus....
 





On Monday, February 18, 2002 at 1:47 am, Derek Tay wrote:
>Whenever I start office 2000 Word, Excel or Powerpoint, I get the Office Assistant 
>popup window which says 'The Office Assistant could not be started.  Please repair 
>the Assistant by running Office 2000 setup and selecting "Repair Office 2000"'. 
 
>
>I have done so but the popup is still there.  I have even reformated my hard-disk 
>hoping to completely clean up whatever remants settings, etc  [One good side-effect 
>is that I managed to reclaim substantial amount of hard-disk space :))  ]
>
>The bad news is that it still didn't work.  Would appreciate any advice.  Thanks 
>and have a pleasant day.
>
>

Written in response to:: Question about 'Kill the Office Paperclip!' (Derek Tay: Monday, February 18, 2002 at 1:47 am)

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Question about 'Kill the Office Paperclip!' (Derek Tay: Mon, Feb 18, 2002, 1:47 am)

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