Michael Perry wrote:
> On 4 Mar, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> >
> > There are two giveaways in this virus warning that it isn't genuine:
> >
> > 1. The reference to information "announced from IBM" with nothing specific
> > about where in IBM it came from.
> >
> > 2. The fact that the virus is supposed to erase a hard drive without knowing
> > what kind of operating system or hardware it's running on. I have yet to
> > hear of a virus that affects both Windows and Linux, for example, let alone
> > both the PC and the Mac.
>
> Dont word macro virii affect all brands of word that they come into
> contact with? We used to support large numbers of PC and MAC users and
> the word concept and macro virii seemed to move at will because people
> were not careful and did not upgrade virus protection. Nothing
> against, macintosh users but it seemed that our biggest areas of
> infection were the areas that had the most mac users.
>
> Perhaps I am wrong, but I always thought that the macro and concept
> virii could infect either mac or msdos systems.
I was perhaps being too subtle (and maybe not even correct <g>). Microsoft Word
doesn't run under Linux, in general, so Word virii shouldn't affect Linux. But
there is one wrinkle: some versions of Word *might* run using a Windows emulation
package such as Wine or Wabi. Whether the virii would survive in such a
transplanted environment I have no idea.
Paul
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