>- Speaking of E-Mail Virus, Gordon Frey said this to All on 09 Apr 97 10:32
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GF> There is a active E-Mail virus. The Marco Virus takes advantage of
GF> the fact that MS Mail uses a version of Word, and the virus will
GF> Mail copies of it self to users listed in you E-Mail address book
GF> with out user intervention.
Well if this is true....
Just goes to show you shouldn't use MS, and that all this interconnected
stuff isn't all it's cracked up to be.
This sort of thing just can't happen if you use CCMail for mail and Word
Perfect for docs and Borland Quattro for spreadsheets and MYOB for
accounting. Programs that can't talk to each other can't give viruses to
each otehr easily can they?
Steve
... A child's ability to endure stems from his ignorance of alternatives.
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