From: papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) Subject: Re: McAfee VirusScan 20 Jun 1997 08:10:28 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199706201442.KAA08032.cygnus.gnu-win32@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: jpmorgan@unm.edu (James Paul Morgan) Original-Cc: tomjr@afts.com, gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: from "James Paul Morgan" at Jun 19, 97 11:33:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com > Actually, aren't the so-called "macro viruses" not really viruses at all? > It's not an executable that infects your system or you boot sector or > whatever, it's just a macro that is automatically run when you load MS > Word and can only manipulate within the confines of Word? Sound more > like a bug in MS Word than a virus, which means your statement doesn't > counter the statement that there are no Windows NT viruses. The virus can copy itself from file to file and destroy data -- that sounds like a virus to me. It isn't an OS virus, but a "Word Virus". It lives in Word, propogates through word and destroys Word data (though it could in fact destroy any data on the computer). Paul Prescod - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".