Hallo Lawrence,
vrijdag December 13 1996 06:12HR schreef Lawrence Kellie aan Jan Vanden 
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 JVB>> CONCEPT does nothing but foul up your DOC/DOT management. You
 JVB>> can only save your text as DOT. It's annoying, but nothing more...
That was my experience.
 LK> Apparently (according to Microsoft) it may actually do more than that.
Yeah, right. One of the first occurences of CONCEPT was on a demo CD-ROM 
distributed by ... Microsoft !
 LK> Over a period of time, we noticed more and more corrupt documents.
We didn't notice corrupt documents as such. They were only saved as DOT's, 
not as DOC's.
 LK> In 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).
Funny, Concept hides in the NORMAL.DOT, and in any document created with it 
...
 LK> After that restoration, the corrupt documents disappeared.
How were the documents "corrupt" ? Unreadable, unprintable, encoded ? And how 
did they "disappear" ? Just vanished, or became readable, printable, .. again 
?
 LK> There may be more to the concept virus than meets the eye.
No, there is no type af virus that is more transparent than a Macro-virus. 
You can see, read and understand its code on your wordprocessor. It's all 
there...
 LK> It *may* be instrumental in the demise of document integrity.
Concept (5 macro's) contains an empty macro: PayLoad. It is customizable to 
any purpose: someone could turn it into a "killer" application. (pun intended 
:)
 LK> Lawrence
Groeten van de TyRannoSaurus.
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