From: jpmorgan AT unm DOT edu (James Paul Morgan) Subject: Re: McAfee VirusScan 19 Jun 1997 22:44:28 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Original-To: Tom Greer Original-cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <33A9857E.1DC0BE5B@afts.com> Original-Sender: owner-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 :) - 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".