Klarinet Archive - Posting 000530.txt from 1998/01

From: Fred <fsheim@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Word Attachments--Watch out for Macro Viruses!!!!!!
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 00:11:31 -0500

I believe too that you cannot get viruses by reading e-mail, but the
warning was about a Word MACRO-VIRUS. There is such a thing- a macro is
sort of a program that is attached to a Word document and runs itself when
the document is opened. There do exist Word macro viruses that can infect
a system.

Fred (fsheim@-----.com)

At 06:13 PM 1/10/98 -0600, you wrote:
>On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Benjamin A. Maas wrote:
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>> I think I got it off of a internet news-group, but I don't know. I
>> STRONGLY urge everybody to check out their computers to make sure these
>> word documents aren't infected.
>
>This will probably start another one of those never-ending bogus warning
>about viruses. Every day when I log on to my e-mail system, I read a
>statement placed there by the system administrator: "You cannot get a
>virus by merely reading e-mail." Still, people receive "warnings" about
>the "good times virus" and others, and newbies still feel obligated to
>forward such warnings to everyone in the world.
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>I don't doubt that Mr. Maas' computer was infected by a virus, but I still
>feel quite confident that it did not come from e-mail. I don't know
>enough about computers myself to know why experts say that viruses cannot
>come through reading e-mail, but all that I have ever heard of do say
>that.
>
>Ed Lacy
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>Professor of Music 1800 Lincoln Avenue
> Evansville, IN 47722
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