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Re: VIRUSES BY MARK THOMAS

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From: Robin Sequira
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 00:00
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You get the virus by running the macro.
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John M. Aldrich <figh...@cs.com> wrote in article
<33232B...@cs.com>...
> Matt Vrazo wrote:
> > 
> > Don't anybody touch any posts by Mark Thomas or the sb360mag.doc which
> > accompany them as they contain the concept virus.  I don't know what it
> > does 'cos I found out before it was too late but I wouldn't take a risk
by
> > opening it.
> 
> For those of us who don't know, and to prevent another general
> hysterical confusion of followups to this ridiculously crossposted
> thread, I would like to mention a few FACTS:
> 
>  - The "Concept" virus is a Microsoft Word macro virus.
>  - You cannot get "infected" by this virus unless you save a document
> which contains it and then open it in MS Word.
>  - There is supposedly a similar virus which infects Wordperfect
> documents.
>  - You CANNOT get infected by any virus simply from reading your news or
> email!
> 
> Thanks for listening.
> 
> -- 
> John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I <figh...@cs.com>
> 
> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
> Version: 3.1
> GCS d- s+:- a-->? c++>$ U@>++$ p>+ L>++ E>++ W++ N++ o+>++ K? w(---)
> O- M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP- t+(-) 5- X- R+(++) tv+() b+++ DI++ D++ G>++
> e(*)>++++ h!() !r !y+()
> ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
> 
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From: "Robin Sequira" <phu...@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: VIRUSES BY MARK THOMAS
Date: 1997/03/10
Message-ID: <01bc2d8d$7e6ad320$50f245cf@dad---robin>
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