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[jdd <jdd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tero Pesonen wrote:

> Not necessarily. I believe there were macro viruses for MS Excell


in approx 25 years of computing, I _never_ had data corrupted by a 
virus, even on windows.

This don't mean I never got virus, but I always see it before any 
damage done. I have seen many computer destructed by visuses, of 
course, even very recently.

it's only a matter of caution. A true virus needs to be executed to 
replicate. I never use an app of unknow origin, if not doublechecked 
by a good anti-virus. I _never_ open a word or exel file from unknown 
origin, in case of doubt I run an anti-virus on them before opening 
(and got many viruses like this).

Now I open word docs with openoffice, I don't think there is (yet) a 
virus able to run like this. of course autorun is always unset.

I usually open docs with wordpad in place of word (in fact I stopped 
using ms word many years ago, with word 97).

last rerally problematic virus I had was on a floppy... and no data 
damaged.

jdd


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