The virus you describe is known to antivirus software and tools as w32.sober.c. See (URL) for information and instructions on how to remove it. >> Mark (21 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
(...) Thank you, Mark, for the info. Even with a minimum of knowledge of file extension, anyone can figure out that it wasn't any ordinary text file attached. So I sent it to Notepad and thus my system was never infected. But I'd like to warn other (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)