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Subject:Re: A puzzlement: is this a virus? From:Lani Hardage <lhardage -at- RMTECH -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 8 Apr 1998 16:08:07 -0700
Also, check your coworker's virus program. The Word macro viruses are
relatively recent (a year or two old?), and see if she has updated her
virus program. McAfee and Symantec have updates you can download from
their web sites.
Elna Tymes wrote:
...A coworker sent me files in the last two days which caused my
> Norton antivirus program to report a virus it identified as WM.CAP.a
> but which the coworker swears wasn't (and isn't) on her system. She
> works
> on a Mac and appended the files to AOL mail messages; the system I
> received them on is running Win95 and Netscape. She says she's
> occasionally encountered problems sending files from Mac (Word 6.01)
> to PC
> (Word 7), but she has the latest SAM and another virus program and has
> detected no viruses.
>
> Has anyone else run into a problem like this? What could be
> going on here?
>
