I recently had a chance to use F-Prots Macro scanner on a suspected
file. The .doc file did contain the Concept.A virus as reported by
Mcafee Scan and F-Prot but neither say anything about the virus. Anyone
know what it does?
Also I had a chance to read Fritz's documentation in F-Prot about macro
viruses. Here is a quote:
        Reading plain data from an infected diskette cannot cause an
        infection.  (However, it is not trivial to determine what
        "plain data" is)
..
but alas, this is no longer true.  It is possible for a virus infection
to spread, just by the act of reading an infected Microsoft Word
document, for example, or through use of Lotus Notes, to name two
well-known applications.
I can see why some people get the impression that by "reading" a
document a virus can become active. The F-Prot doc's seem very brief in
this VERY IMPORTANT area when it states "act of reading an infected MS
Word document..." I think they should have added a few lines and
explained how this occureds. It's really not very complicated.
 * OLX 2.1 * Todd Copeland  -  TEAM OS/2
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