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Original Message
Name: joneswil
Date: December 1, 2006 at 09:25:27 Pacific
Subject: winword.exe memory increasing
OS: Windows XP Professional
CPU/Ram: Pentium/1 GB
Model/Manufacturer: Dell
Comment:

When I open a Microsoft Word document it closes after about ten seconds. When I go into Task Manager and look at Memory Usage I can see that the document opens fine, but then the memory it uses keeps increasing from 20K to 200+K until it closes. Do I have a virus?


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Name: Johnw
Date: December 1, 2006 at 20:36:04 Pacific
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