Concept virus(?)

[John Creech]

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Lisa wrote:

> We have picked up a virus which appears to only effect WORD by preventing
> docs being saved in any other directory bar the templete directory, which
> is write protected. Has this effected anyone else or does anyone have any
> advice?

Lisa,

We *had* been using Scanprot to check for infected files in Word.
Recently, however, text files have been showing up with the blue
templete arrow on the file icon, even tho when you go to Tools/Macro
in Word, there are *no* virus macros resident.  Before, one would
normally find 4 macros inserted (sorry; don't remember names of
macros).  

Our networking folks came by today and installed Virus Scan 2.0 from
Macafee to deal with it.  According to them, there are now a series of
macro viruses that may infect Word files.  You can set Virus Scan to
automatically scan the hard disk ea day--our library is largely
Mac-powered, so they stay on in sleep mode.  Also, Networking told us
that the Macafee product automatically scans a floppie ea time you
insert it into drive. 

Time will tell as to effectiveness of Virus Scan.

 John Creech, Reference Librarian & Instructional Services Libn.
 California State University at Monterey Bay
 jcreech at redshift.com
 http://www.redshift.com/~jcreech
                                       
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