In my earlier post, which you may have missed, I stated that *.doc is
generally used by Word, but can be used by Wordperfect, Lotus Wordpro, or
any other word processor, and the file can be in that program's native
file format, or any format that program supports. To know if a file is
really in a Word format, which is the format at risk, one needs to
actually receive and examine the file.
jeh
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Jamie wrote:
> Hello Splatt
>
> On 15-Apr-00, you wrote:
>
> S> The DCC request goes through the server as a normal CTCP, sends
> S> information like filename, their hostname and port number for your IRC
> S> client to connect to to recieve the file. And as Dalnet is a very lame
> S> IRC network, it thinks a text file is a virus. DCC Allow is probably a
> S> command in mirc.. Thats really pathetic that a network as big as Dalnet
> S> is doing this.
>
> No. Trojans are transferred as Macros in Word. Our University had much
> trouble with these a while back. Word uses *.doc, and these can contain such
> macro virii. So its not really lame, but they ought to leave it to the user.
> On the other hand, the warning is good for newbies.
>
> Love,
> Jamie
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