From: bmdberlin AT worldnet DOT att DOT net ("Daniel Berlin") Subject: Re: McAfee VirusScan 19 Jun 1997 14:10:31 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <19970619192339.AAA181.cygnus.gnu-win32@danielbe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "Tom Greer" , X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.0904.0 X-MimeOle: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE Engine V4.71.0904.0 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com 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. ---- From: Tom Greer To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Cc: Daniel Berlin 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 | | >+------------------------------------+--------------------------------+ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".