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My favorite error messages.
Posted By: Howard, on host 216.80.149.4
Date: Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 15:57:51

From the first day that I got online, I have been threatened by my own computer with this line:
"This program has performed and illegal function and will be shut down." It sounds like crime and punishment but I never hear sirens or see flashing lights. Only once or twice has it actually carried throught with the threat. I usually just X it and go on about my business.

Then comes this harmless little note:
"Photo Deluxe has a file problem." Again, I just X it and it goes away.

And then I get this one a lot:
"Norton AntiVirus was unable to send your email message because the connection to your mail server was interrupted. Please open your email client and re-send your message from the Sent Messages folder." This one generally works, which makes it unique among error messages. You have to love an error message like that.

Then I get:
"The Multipass Hardware could not be initalized."
I found the word "Multipass" on my printer. Do you suppose it has something to do with that?

And the most frustrating error message of all time, and I get it every Friday:
"The virus scan has failed because a citical error occured during the scan." I have no clue what the error was or why it is so critical. Would it kill the computer to tell me a little more?

While I was typing this in, I got kicked off line. The only error message I got was a curt "BingBong" and I was off. I know how to fix that problem.
Howard

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