Re: Word macro virus

[Roy Anderson <royanderson -at- MINDSPRING -dot- COM>]

Oops. The Housecall folks don't like Netscape users visiting their
explorer.html page.

The URL is http://housecall.antivirus.com/netscape.html if one is
among those who still using Netscape's browser.

Scanning over the Net? This seems so weird. Just imagine all the neat
data they could collect while scanning your drive..oh, that's right...
for viruses. Naughty programmers at the scanning firm (I'm not saying
they do it, just that the potential is there) could capture your love
letters, your address books, your personal data...as they search one's
hard drives. On second thought, I'll pass. Thanks for the tip, though.

Roy


Suzanne Pyle wrote:
>
> Thanks to all of you including Peter. You were right. I had to get rid of
> NORMAL.DOT and reinstall. Not a bad solution overall, and someone else also
> recommended the free online virus scanner, Housecall
> (http://housecall.antivirus.com/explorer.html) which was also great, and quickly
> detected the problem file---something Norton and McCaffe couldn't do.
>
> Suzanne
>
> Peter Lucas wrote:
>
> > When you open Word or create a new document in Word, it uses a template file
> > to assign certain default settings, etc. The template is generally the
> > NORMAL.DOT file. Make sure you are scanning the directory where this file
> > exists because that's how many of these Word macro viruses propagate.
> > There's a good chance that you will need to destroy your NORMAL.DOT file and
> > start with a new one, because often times after you have scanned and cleaned
> > the template, it becomes corrupted.
> >
> > Good luck!
> > Peter Lucas
> >
> > >Does anyone have any tips on eliminating a macro virus in Word files?
> > >I've run two anti-virus utilities on all my files, and no viruses are
> > >detected, and yet many people who receive Word or Powerpoint files from
> > >me are saying they're infested with a macro virus.
> > >
> > >thanks,
> > >
> > >Suzanne


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