Its a traaap! (viruses)

[Guy Fawkes]

Macintosh users are always very smug, it seems, about the resilience of their computers to viruses. Unfortunately, theirs is a false security. There are, in fact a lot of viruses for Mac. How many? Does it rival Microsoft's known 114,000?

No.


There are 40. And many of them seem to infect (get this)... programs made by microsoft. Like "MS Word:Mac," or the MS Office suite (in general).

[GoneOffShore]

1. The biggest problem are the Macro

attached viruses that come with Microsoft docs. They're tough to get off of a hard drive and don't so much infect the OS but make your machine an infectious agent.

[rusty charly]

2. is there a way

to remove these "macro"s?

i have some windoze word files i keep so when i forward them to windoze people, they can open them.

otherwise, i'd convert the all to appleworks. but then, 'those people' can't open what i've done...