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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Anthony Davey
>Subject: OT: Helpful Microsoft Forums
>
>Hi All,
>
>Great start to a Monday morning, a bug has wiped my complete email
>account system. (Don't worry, Norton has checked this before sending.)
>
>Can anybody direct me to an MS users forum that gives sensible free
>answers. NAV keeps telling me that it has detected various viruses on
>my system (XP Pro). Unfortunately these are in the System Information
>Files, which are backup that are, ostensibly, inaccessible. So
>Microsoft is helping to cause its own user problems (not much
>new there).
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