Concept virus(?)

[Anna Schwind]

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Bill Moseley wrote:

> Another thing that is kicking around is that by making the normal.dot
> template file readonly you can prevent macro viruses from propagating.
> 
> Can anyone confirm these methods?

My experience with the MS office suite (including Word) and making things 
read-only is that it generally kicks and screams but I haven't actually 
tried making normal.dot read-only.  However, I do know that you can 
delete normal.dot and word will recreate a new (and presumably clean) one 
next time you open it.  So if you boot your computers daily you might put 
a line in your startup files to delete normal.dot and minimize virus 
propagation that way.

Anna
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