On 4 Mar, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
There are two giveaways in this virus warning that it isn't genuine:
1. The reference to information "announced from IBM" with nothing specific about where in IBM it came from.
2. The fact that the virus is supposed to erase a hard drive without knowing what kind of operating system or hardware it's running on. I have yet to hear of a virus that affects both Windows and Linux, for example, let alone both the PC and the Mac.
Paul
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Dont word macro virii affect all brands of word that they come into contact with? We used to support large numbers of PC and MAC users and the word concept and macro virii seemed to move at will because people were not careful and did not upgrade virus protection. Nothing against, macintosh users but it seemed that our biggest areas of infection were the areas that had the most mac users. Perhaps I am wrong, but I always thought that the macro and concept virii could infect either mac or msdos systems. -- Michael E. Perry mperry@basin.com -------------------- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>