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to: PETER STEFANOVIC
from: DAVID DESROSIERS
date: 1997-03-23 15:09:00
subject: Re: infected winword document

 -=> Quoting Peter Stefanovic to Paul Walker <=-
 PW> Unfortunately, completely inaccurate. Word macro viruses generally
 PW> spread only to other Word documents - they insert themselves into the
 PW> global template, and then infect any document opened/closed/etc.
 PW> Nothing to do with .exe files at all, although I believe such a beast
 PW> could possibly be written.
 PS> Yeah, I made a mistake, I was taking about viruses in genteral..
        Actually, the virus doesn't touch documents at all. It only infects
templates. You can't have a macro in a document, you can only have them in a
template. What most macros do is change the document format to a template
format and retain the name. Sneaky....
        The Winword Developer's Kit is such a nice tool 
... Sometimes it seems to me as if I'm just being used -Floyd
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