Don't Infect Thy PC Brethren

with the W97M.Melissa.W Virus using Office 2001. Apparently when received with a PC Word document, the virus can be encrypted in a Mac Word 2001 document and sent to your PC-using friends and colleagues undetected by their virus checking programs. If they are using M$ Outlook, when they open the attached file then whammo! However, the infection appears to be waning according to this TechWeb article. Still I am sure that the Disciples of Redmond will use this event as another stupid reason to get rid of Macs, i.e. claiming that Macs constitute an uncontrollable security risk to Wintels. [Dana Baggett]
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