From:	bmdberlin AT worldnet DOT att DOT net ("Daniel Berlin")
Subject:	Re: McAfee VirusScan
19 Jun 1997 14:10:31 -0700 :
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i said other than macro viruses.
Yup, never been hit with concept, but when i was writing a book for
SAMS.Net a year ago (I just turned 18 in june, it was a summer thing. Lead
author on a book on CGI programming) , the default author template was
infected with concept.  


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From: Tom Greer <tomjr AT afts DOT com>
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc: Daniel Berlin <bmdberlin AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
Date: Thursday, June 19, 1997 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: McAfee VirusScan

>Daniel Berlin wrote:
>
>> Well, not to make you feel bad, but A hobby of mine is Virus Research,
and
>> I won't go into how badly mcaffee and others cheat the public  (the
whole
>> industry is basically a scam. They lie, but nobody who doesn't work for
>> them knows enough to figure it out, or they only know what they've been
>> told by virus scanning software companies.), but there are no known
viruses
>> that can infect windows nt computers.
>> That's right.
>
>I beg to differ: I had McAfee installed on the system in order to
>eradicate my network of the Word macro virus "CONCEPT".  A customer had
>given it to us on a floppy containing a Word document they wanted us to
>use as artwork for their laser print job.  It is a very annoying virus
>if your a heavy Word user: it forces Word to always save things as
>templates, even if you change the type in Save As to a document.
>
>I cleaned over 400 Word documents on my network with it over a two day
>period, including local Word documents on my NT computer.
>
>However, now that the virus is purged, I don't feel a need to keep it
>around any more.
>
>+------------------------------------+--------------------------------+
>| Tom Greer                          |                                |
>| Systems Administrator              |                                |
>| Automatic Funds Transfer Services  |     URL: http://www.afts.com/  |
>| Seattle, WA                        |                                |
>+------------------------------------+--------------------------------+ 

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