Dear Friend

Two HUMBLE apologies.

FIRST
You may in the last 30 hours have had from me a puzzling text message, just
a fragment of text, and an attachment.
The one I foolishly opened was an msdos batch file, extension .bat, but
another has since come from the same email source with the extension .com. 
Please do not open it, it is of course another idiotic malicious creation.
Seems possibly not to be a 'virus' since antivirus progs do not find or fix
it!! Maybe a trojan or work or some other scum life. But it may be
corrupting the antivirus programme first.
The effect was to slow down the machine, make programmes suddenly quit,
give error messages, etc. And I'm fairly sure it has been replicating and
sending out.
Seems to be a plague of these things about - is this another part of the
global anti-capitalist conspiracy, or a CIA plan gone wrong once more? 
Anyway, after taking professional advice I have had to wipe and reformat
the computer. This message is being sent on the backup machine, which was
kept isolated.
If you've got it, grovelling apologies. Life is infuriating at times.

SECOND
When re-installing programmes I found that Compuserve 2000 was troublesome,
and in common with others I have found thisservice poor - 'clunky' is I
think the excellent word Sheena Wellington used.
So I am reverting to my old address, attached to this message.

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"Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder
respectable and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
George Orwell

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