Re: Melissa Macro Virus

[brett () LARIAT ORG (Brett Glass)]

Melissa doesn't just infect NORMAL.DOT. It also infects anything you open
after you've opened the infected document. Read the code....

--Brett

At 02:10 PM 3/30/99 +0200, Bronek Kozicki wrote:
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> There is another kind of protection (and I used it sucesfully in my network
> for last few months). Just set NORMAL.DOT read only attribute. When exiting
> Word user will be warned with message "unable to save modified Normal.dot" -
> he/she then comes to support, and then we know that we have problem. Of
> course - normal.dot is placed in user's profile. This is pretty simple kind
> of protection against macro-viruses in Word.
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> Bronek Kozicki
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