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Re: McAfee VirusScan


Daniel Berlin wrote:

> Well, not to make you feel bad, but A hobby of mine is Virus Research, and
> I won't go into how badly mcaffee and others cheat the public  (the whole
> industry is basically a scam. They lie, but nobody who doesn't work for
> them knows enough to figure it out, or they only know what they've been
> told by virus scanning software companies.), but there are no known viruses
> that can infect windows nt computers.
> That's right.

I beg to differ: I had McAfee installed on the system in order to
eradicate my network of the Word macro virus "CONCEPT".  A customer had
given it to us on a floppy containing a Word document they wanted us to
use as artwork for their laser print job.  It is a very annoying virus
if your a heavy Word user: it forces Word to always save things as
templates, even if you change the type in Save As to a document.

I cleaned over 400 Word documents on my network with it over a two day
period, including local Word documents on my NT computer.

However, now that the virus is purged, I don't feel a need to keep it
around any more.

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| Tom Greer                          |                                |
| Systems Administrator              |                                |
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| Seattle, WA                        |                                |
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