(Fwd) Virus Warning

[Earl Young]

     This is true unless you use a program such as Microsoft Word.  
     "Reading" a message in Word that has been infected with a Word-macro 
     virus can infect your system.  These viruses have been around well 
     over a year, and are possible because Word uses an executable language 
     (it's essentially Basic) in the construction of macros.  It is not the 
     message but the macro which is the problem, but you can launch a virus 
     just by reading an appropriately configured message if you use Word to 
     read the message.
     
     I added a little detail to how to prevent these in another response 
     which I will not repeat here.
     
     Earl Young


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Subject: Re: (Fwd) Virus Warning
Author:  rmorgan at Harding.edu at INTERNET
Date:    1/31/97 12:00 PM


** Reply to note from Jo Lyon <j.lyon at chester.ac.uk> Fri, 31 Jan 1997 07:09:35 
-0800 
     
Can you say "HOAX"??? 
     
The simple act of reading a message does NOT infect your computer with a 
virus.  This is impossible... 
     
     
Ronnie Morgan 
Team OS/2 
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