File spoon-archives/puptcrit.archive/puptcrit_1999/puptcrit.9904, message 2


Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:08:06 -0500
From: David Shaw <dshaw-AT-jabberwocky.com>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Virus


On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:52:56PM -0700, Bill Jones wrote:
> >I have absolutely loved this wonderful list, but am frankly scared of this
> >new virus. I did read on the FBI page though something about windows, does
> >that mean my old Mac is safe?
> >TT
> 
> 
> ...... it doesn't infect Macs (or, more accurately,
> there have been no reports of Macs being infected.) It seems to require
> Word 97 or Word 2000, both of which are Windows only products.

The material I read said that it can indeed infect Macs running Word.  It
isn't able to send itself out via email, but it can certainly add itself
to your documents and multiply that way.  Also, if you give any of those
documents to a Windoze person, then they can get infected as well and the
email distribution can start.

David

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