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Re: McAfee VirusScan
- To: Tom Greer <tomjr at afts dot com>
- Subject: Re: McAfee VirusScan
- From: James Paul Morgan <jpmorgan at unm dot edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 23:33:51 -0600 (MDT)
- cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Tom Greer wrote:
> I beg to differ: I had McAfee installed on the system in order to
> eradicate my network of the Word macro virus "CONCEPT".
> [SNIP]
>
Actually, aren't the so-called "macro viruses" not really viruses at all?
It's not an executable that infects your system or you boot sector or
whatever, it's just a macro that is automatically run when you load MS
Word and can only manipulate within the confines of Word? Sound more
like a bug in MS Word than a virus, which means your statement doesn't
counter the statement that there are no Windows NT viruses.
However, I personally don't believe that any operating system has no
viruses. Even LINUX can be infected now.
See ya around the Mulberry bush.
--James
:)
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