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echo: virus_info
to: STEVE BENNETT
from: GORDON FREY
date: 1997-04-24 14:50:00
subject: Windows 3.1 Virus questi

On (20 Apr 97) Steve Bennett wrote to Kurt Wismer...
 SB> >- Speaking of Windows 3.1 Virus questi, Kurt Wismer said this to
 SB> Steven Williams on 15 Apr 97  09:36 -<
 KW> they are macros written in visual basic for word (the ms word macro
 KW> language) and are stored in the infected *.do? files (because word
 KW> stores macros inside of the document files) and it spreads to other
 KW> *.do? files and generally creates a big hassle for the user who has to
 KW> then recover from all this..
 SB> Big hassle? Nah...at school we're told to just delete the normal.dot
 SB> when we get the concept virus...
But that will not clean your infected documents!  Edit an infected 
document and you are infected again!  Now there are over one 
hundred of those macro virus!
Gordon
... Man, that lighting sounds clo#A#V!&#v?##v .... NO CARRIER
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