Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you don't believe Jim, you may read the information at www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html Martin Omlin At 07:18 AM 4/17/97 -0400, you wrote: >I hope you are right, Jim. >There is a chance to down load a virus with just the text file if you use programs like Word or WordPerfect to read the message and the messages includes macros. For example, I read me e-mail using Microsoft Office 97 Outlook and Outlook uses Word 7 to read me e-mails. When the text calls for exercising the macro it could happen. You see the macro IS what you EXECUTE. For that reasons Word 7 gives you a 'Virus Alert' warning message if you start the program by double clicking a document that you want to re-load. > >It's too bad, but we have to face that we live in a rather sick world! > >Regards Jorg > > Martin Omlin ______________________________________________________________________ Computer and System Sciences Department e-mail: omlin@eawag.ch Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG) Ueberlandstrasse 133 fon: +41-1-823-5597 CH-8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland fax: +41-1-823-5398