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Article #76214Re: VIRUSES BY MARK THOMAS
From: James Watson
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 00:00
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John M. Aldrich wrote: > > 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! Also : The effect that the virus has is limited to word processing files *ONLY*. When you open a document in Word, the concept virus will only allow you to save the file as a 'Template.' In short, it cannot adversly affect your hard drive. -- wat...@iamerica.net
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From: James Watson <wat...@iamerica.net> Subject: Re: VIRUSES BY MARK THOMAS Date: 1997/03/10 Message-ID: <3323DD6A.4CA9@iamerica.net> X-Deja-AN: 224352998 References: <01bc2833$aad218b0$0e4d6fcb@gateway> <01bc2c35$1afe6620$2493dec2@inky> <33232B3B.2A99@cs.com> Organization: LDS I-America Newsgroups: alt.binaries.games.quake,alt.games.command-n-conq.red-alert,alt.games.descent,alt.games.doom,alt.games.doom.ii,alt.games.doom.newplayers,alt.games.quake,alt.games.redalert,alt.games.warcraft,rec.arts.sf.starwars.games,rec.games.computer.doom.ann MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit