OT: Email viruses
- To: "'perennials@mallorn.com'" <perennials@mallorn.com>
- Subject: OT: Email viruses
- From: "* S* <S*@lhs.org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 07:51:35 -0700
The new "Microsoft Word "Macro" viruses can definitely be transmitted by
email. I know, because it just happened to us here at work. Macro
viruses operate within MSWord and are activated when the application is
launched. If an 'infected' document is attached to an email, and you
open that document, the virus is activated and will spread to your
system. Luckily the Macro viruses are fairly non-destructive, but they
still wreak great havoc, and caused us to have to purchase several
hundreds of dollars worth of anti-virus software for your research
group.
The best protection against Macro viruses is to have Virus protection
installed on your own system. Properly configured, this will detect a
Word Macro virus BEFORE the infected document is opened, and will allow
you to 'repair' the document, preventing the infection from reaching
your system.
Detailed information about Macro viruses is available ont he web. The
"Dr. Solomon's Virex page" is particularly good.
Sue P.
SPesznec@lhs.org Portland, Oregon
(USDA zone 8, Sunset zone 6)
> I don't recall the precise 'security problem' but if it concerned
> E-Mail
> and viruses, I just read an article by Wash Post writer who said it
> was
> "impossible" to transmit a virus by a text E-Mail.
> scott
>
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