From:	jpmorgan AT unm DOT edu (James Paul Morgan)
Subject:	Re: McAfee VirusScan
19 Jun 1997 22:44:28 -0700 :
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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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