New Virus
> When you download a text/script file, do you not view it first? You would
> see the commands that would be harmful. If you can see these commands,
> then they are not really virus'. virus' are hidden commands given to your
> system to do dammage or print something like "Your a fu**ing idiot!" I've
> seen this one. It printed that message to the screen every five minutes.
The problem is that document files created by wordprocessors are not ASCII text
files. Most of them look like binary if you try and load them into a simple
text viewer, you have to use the wordprocessor to read them, and loading them
into the wordprocessor is what triggers the macro.
Peter Wade
Autopiloting from London, England