[39919] in Cypherpunks
MS Word Virus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (anonymous@freezone.remailer)
Fri Sep 22 19:50:01 1995
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 19:47:08 -0400
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: anonymous@freezone.remailer
For info and helpful links on the MS Word macro virus, see:
URL: http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov/first/resources/word.html
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Information on the Microsoft Word Virus Reports
Comments welcomed: first-sec@first.org
This page contains links to information and related
utilities for the
Microsoft Word Macro Virus. The links and text on this page
were
mostly donated by a fellow FIRST member. The FIRST
Secretariat would
like to express its appreciation to this member and others
who have
contributed information.
Microsoft's Writeup Microsoft has a writeup on the
virus-like macro
and has a scanning tool to remove the problem.
Macintosh advisory
DataFellows Web page DataFellows (the people who
produce
FProt) has an excellent informational web page, including
images of
what you would see if you had the virus. Also, you can
download
DataFellows' utility, which works on both PC's and
Macintoshes.
Download DataFellows Utility
IBM Writeup An excellent write up by IBM.
NCSA page The National Computer Security Assiciation has
a page
which contains images of what you'd see if you had the
virus.
S&S Writeup A writeup by S&S, the makers of Dr. Solomon's
Antivirus
Toolkit
Sophos Plc A page written by Sophos Plc.
AVP Page
Eugene Kaspersky of the AVP Computer Virus Research
Lab, wrote
this excellent web page on the virus.
Dave Phillips Information page.
A page written by Dave Phillips.
NH&A</a>
A page consisting of an announcement and email
traffic, written
by NH&A.
Datawatch Virus Definition Update
Datawatch, (Virex), present a virus definition update
to their
product to find this virus on Macintoshes.
