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to: LAWRENCE KELLIE
from: WAYNE FALLEN
date: 1996-12-17 10:42:00
subject: RE:Macro-virus

Gidday Lawrence
LK>> CONCEPT does nothing but foul up your DOC/DOT management. You can
LK>> only save your text as DOT. It's annoying, but nothing more...
LK> 
LK> Apparently (according to Microsoft) it may actually do more than that.  
LK> At our company, we got hit with the concept virus--as most places did.  
LK> Over a period of time, we noticed more and more corrupt documents.  In 
LK> trying to determine what may have caused it, MS stated to restore the 
LK> templates *before* the concept virus hitting (even though we had clean 
LK> templates). After that restoration, the corrupt documents disappeared.  
LK> There may be more to the concept virus than meets the eye.  It *may* be 
LK> instrumental in the demise of document integrity.
LK> 
At our organisation, a Government department, we often get 'hit' by the 
Concept virus, it is really quite serious as it has the ability to remove all 
your hard work in a document, I had an experience with my boss who asked me 
for help as he could not e-mail a word 6 document, so I had a go with no 
avail, then took the document which was on a floppy to my machine and opened 
it up, all the boss's work of some 3 to 4 hours was gone! the document was 
empty, I then scanned it and found the concept virus.
You are right, there is more to this macro virus than a nuisance!
cheers,
Wayne
wfallen@tpgi.com.au         fallenwr@citec.qld.gov.au
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