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to: TODD COPELAND
from: JULIAN YAP
date: 1997-02-15 15:28:00
subject: VIRUS GOOD-TIMES

TC> Maybe your missing the point. Executing a macro is NOT "reading a
TC> message", period. I can "read" executable code and I can launch it
TC> using
TC> an application. To further clarify, I can read an infected Word or
TC> Write macro in my DOS EDIT.EXE application and stand 0% chance of
TC> activating the virus. This would be "reading" the document. If I launch
TC> the macro in Word or Write them I'm not just reading it.
What I mean is that when a untrained person reads a file in Word that
contains a macro virus, how are they going to know that they are not
just "reading the message".  That is the point I am getting at.
... Not now ... I have to go mow the laundry.
--- Ezycom V1.48g0 02fa0029
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