-=> Mocking Todd to All <=-
  (Mock, mOck, moCk, mocK)
 TC> I recently had a chance to use F-Prots Macro scanner on a suspected
 TC> file. The .doc file did contain the Concept.A virus as reported by
 TC> Mcafee Scan and F-Prot but neither say anything about the virus.
 TC> Anyone know what it does?
it infects the macro portion of ms word for windows 6+ documents...
thats about it...
 TC> Also I had a chance to read Fritz's documentation in F-Prot about
fritz? f-prot isn't writen by a cat... you must be thinking of frisk,
short for fridrik skulason...
 TC> Reading plain data from an infected diskette cannot cause an
 TC> infection.  (However, it is not trivial to determine what
 TC> "plain data" is)
 TC> ..
 TC> but alas, this is no longer true.  It is possible for a virus
 TC> infection to spread, just by the act of reading an infected Microsoft
 TC> Word document, for example, or through use of Lotus Notes, to name two
 TC> well-known applications.
 TC> I can see why some people get the impression that by "reading" a
 TC> document a virus can become active. The F-Prot doc's seem very brief
 TC> in this VERY IMPORTANT area when it states "act of reading an infected
 TC> MS Word document..." I think they should have added a few lines and
 TC> explained how this occureds. It's really not very complicated.
agreed... maybe you should send a message to frisk and ask that he stop
scaring the poor users...
... wazzu ate my homework...
                   
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