She might want to try a brand name antivirus like Norton or McAfee (If McAfee makes it for macs), I know McAfee for the PC scans before for viruses before installing. I use McAfee for my laptop and Norton for Mac OS 9. I have all the auto scanning and auto protection off for Norton, to save System resources.
From, Stephen maryland...@gmail.com On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu > wrote: > > > On Mar 6, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: > > > > > This from another list. Wondering if it's something that can cause > > trouble within Word on a Mac or just something that is on a Windows > > Word file and the Mac user passes it thru to another Windows user > > without being affected. I guess the Mac OS doesn't get affected in > > any case. Anyone have the low down on what this is about? > > > >> hi everyone: a friend just called me in tears - she a new Mac user > > (new laptop). apparently she has a Word macro virus, and she needs > > to be sending out some Word >documents. > > ??? > > If she does have a Macro virus she must have a really, really OLD > version of Word. > > Since Office 97/98 Word has always popped up a dialog when opening a > document that contains macros, blocking their loading, and offering to > let the user immediately save it without the macros. > > After that, Word Macro viruses vanished in the wild...I haven't seen > one that did not come from a very old archived file in years and > years. Why the hell Microsoft couldn't apply that lesson to the rest > of Windows, I'll never know. > > If she's getting a report from someone else that the file has macros > in it, she should look in the Macros menu with that document open, and > see if there is anything there...it could well be that the whole thing > is a false positive from some flaky Windows AV app, especially if the > victim has been infested with one of the fake AV apps going around on > the Windows side. Those are bad. > > They'll grind your system to a halt, kill your current AV, open back > doors on your computer and then they demand that you pay $40-$60 to > 'upgrade' to the 'Pro' version which will remove things. Of course, > the only virus infecting the PC is usually that software. > > 99.99% of Word Macro Viruses can only harm Windows systems. > > > > >> anyone have more clues i could offer her (being a PC person > > myself)? good anti-virus programs for a Mac? > > ClamXAV <http://www.clamxav.com/> > > -- > Bruce Johnson > > "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
