From: tomjr@afts.com (Tom Greer) Subject: Re: McAfee VirusScan 19 Jun 1997 13:41:14 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33A9857E.1DC0BE5B.cygnus.gnu-win32@afts.com> References: <19970619041505.AAA23862@danielbe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0 [en] (WinNT; I) Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-CC: Daniel Berlin X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Daniel Berlin wrote: > Well, not to make you feel bad, but A hobby of mine is Virus Research, and > I won't go into how badly mcaffee and others cheat the public (the whole > industry is basically a scam. They lie, but nobody who doesn't work for > them knows enough to figure it out, or they only know what they've been > told by virus scanning software companies.), but there are no known viruses > that can infect windows nt computers. > That's right. I beg to differ: I had McAfee installed on the system in order to eradicate my network of the Word macro virus "CONCEPT". A customer had given it to us on a floppy containing a Word document they wanted us to use as artwork for their laser print job. It is a very annoying virus if your a heavy Word user: it forces Word to always save things as templates, even if you change the type in Save As to a document. I cleaned over 400 Word documents on my network with it over a two day period, including local Word documents on my NT computer. However, now that the virus is purged, I don't feel a need to keep it around any more. +------------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | Tom Greer | | | Systems Administrator | | | Automatic Funds Transfer Services | URL: http://www.afts.com/ | | Seattle, WA | | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------+ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".