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Re: McAfee VirusScan
- To: "Tom Greer" <tomjr at afts dot com>, <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: McAfee VirusScan
- From: "Daniel Berlin" <bmdberlin at worldnet dot att dot net>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 15:22:59 -0400
i said other than macro viruses.
Yup, never been hit with concept, but when i was writing a book for
SAMS.Net a year ago (I just turned 18 in june, it was a summer thing. Lead
author on a book on CGI programming) , the default author template was
infected with concept.
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From: Tom Greer <tomjr@afts.com>
To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
Cc: Daniel Berlin <bmdberlin@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Thursday, June 19, 1997 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: McAfee VirusScan
>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.
>
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>| Tom Greer | |
>| Systems Administrator | |
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>| Seattle, WA | |
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