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- From: jwhite1@rain.org (John White)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: You Better READ this Before Considering Buying a USRobotics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 96 14:38:55 GMT
- Organization: RAIN Public Access Internet (805) 967-RAIN
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- References: <316D5D3F.7D95@Bother.me> <4kk479$lhf@nntp1.best.com>
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- In article <4kk479$lhf@nntp1.best.com>, Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox) wrote:
- >In article <316D5D3F.7D95@Bother.me>, "Don't"@Bother.me says...
- >>
- >>Quoted from a prof. of LSU chemistry Department:
- >>
- >> You might be interested to know that all of the people who got
- >> infected from this virus had just installed some software from your
- >> favorite company (US Robotics!). It seems that the virus came with
- >> the diskette supplied from USR. Our guys called USR to complain and
- >> got the response ''Hey, prove it man!'' What a great company!
- >>
- >>what a bunch of ASSHOLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- >>--
- >
- >wel prove it then
- >
-
- Typical USR customer "service" . This is no way for any customer service
- personnel to treat someone calling in. I doubt if the diskette had a virus on
- it. However if USR writes software the way they build modems (BUGGY) who
- knows.
-