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- From: amiken@nando.net (Kenneth Munn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Manfred Schmitt resigns?
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 09:10:34 GMT
- Organization: Nando.net Public Access
- Message-ID: <1498.6675T1153T1800@nando.net>
- References: <351BFC81@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk> <4i437b$2g2p@rohcs1.uhc.com>
- <675.6671T1357T1258@himolde.no> <4kg5cv$ll2@maya.dei.unipd.it>
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-
- Hi Mazzuco Claudio 306941/IF, you wrote:
- :In article <675.6671T1357T1258@himolde.no>, Espen.Berntsen@himolde.no
- :(Nameless) writes:
- :|>
- :|> >: I don't know, but I heard that ESCOM and AT were both completely
- :|> >: destroyed when all their computers came down with the GOOD TIMES
- :|> >: virus!!!
- :|>
- :|> >i hope you are joking. there is NO GOOD TIMES virus.
- :|>
- :|> Yes there are. A virus is unwanted, it spreads.. Just like the EMail about
- :|> the Good Times virus. I.e the virus is the email. And believe me, I have
- :|> gotten it a few times the last 3 years.
-
- :Rofl!! :))
-
- Amiga users don't believe it but it is true. Many PC news/mailreaders will
- load MS word to display some documents. The document contains a macro
- that MS word stupidly uses to replace your template. This macro contains
- code to format the data on the screen AND code that replaces your default
- template with itself AND code to infect your disk.
-
- Leave it to MicroSoft to design a word processor that will allow you
- to run a program from a template... Now the FIX is another WORD macro that
- runs a program that can find the virus and remove the offending template.
- Too bad about all the data you lost in the mean time. There are at least
- to copy-cat viruses running around. MSWord for MAC is not affected by this
- virus.
-
-
- --
- Ken Munn amiken@parsifal.nando.net
-
- "When I married Mr.Ogg, we had three dozen oysters at
- OUR wedding feast. Mind you, they didn't all work."
-
- -- (Terry Pratchett, LORDS AND LADIES)
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