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Re: Virus

Posted by Frank Hale on 1999-03-31

Computer Consultant wrote:
> Frank: I can write a binary for linux and email it out to everyone, it's
> not a virus,
> it's basically a script.  One could easily be written to do the same thing.

I wasn't claiming to be some virus geek or anything. But I had heard
that the Melissa virus was a Word97 macro virus. I could really care
less anyway I never use Office97 anyway, and since I don't have it and I
run Linux then I guess it would be pretty hard for a Word macro virus to
screw my computer up. 

And on the Linux binary I would never execute any binary sent to me
anyway. 

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