Spouse's (Lurker in Chief) Company has been hit by Melissa Virus. Anyone else???

Qouthe she: "Thousands of emails here and around country"

My comment: "Certainly hope i'm NOT on your mail list."

Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), January 27, 2000

Answers

It's times like this that I especially appreciate the fact that I'm on a Mac. We have viruses, too, but probably 10 times fewer that the Windows community has to put up with. Good luck to you and the Spouse....

-- Ed Yourdon (ed@yourdon.com), January 27, 2000.

thanks for the heads up, Chuck.

Unfortunately, I am not on a Mac. When I went to Mcafee to download the latest free DAT files, they now have a screen asking for your e- mail address. There is either a broken link or way too heavy traffic, as I cannot get beyond that screen. I either get a 404 file not found, or their screen that says something is missing. Grrr...

-- Nancy (wellsnl@hotmail.com), January 27, 2000.

Gotta love Mac's!

-- Just Curious (jnmpow@flash.net), January 27, 2000.

Does this mean that most viruses are written by Mac fanatics? Or that even hackers don't think it's worth the trouble to create an Apple version of their product?

-- apple bobber (rottentothe@core.net), January 27, 2000.

Cheers to Ed there -- yes, Macs indeed. On the various lists I run, every so often something slips through, and it's always been Windows-based, so at least I'm able to keep working on things and warn the other users.

*glazed look in eyes*

Join us...join us...we are Mac, we are proud...

-- Ned Raggett (ned@kuci.org), January 27, 2000.

Take a Word file that has Melissa, copy it onto a floppy, and open it in a Mac.n You can read the macro, and see exactly how Melissa does her dirty work. BTW, DataFellows has taken over the previously free f-prot virus program. They still offer the last dos version for free, and it will take care of Melissa, and other macro viruses (viri)?)

-- walt (walt@lcs.k12.ne.us), January 27, 2000.

Everyone could just not use Microsofts easy target, Word, and switch to WordPerfert. No macro viruses that I know of, and you just might be doing Bill a favor by not making him look so monopolistic.

WordPerfect, still the best regardless of what the magazines say.

-- Just passin through (nobody@nowhere.com), January 27, 2000.

Right, WP is the way to fly. Been using it since back in old DOS days with zip problems.

And besides, MAC isn't a computer, it's a cult. (s)

-- Old WP user (from the far away@hill.com), January 27, 2000.