>I have heard the same. BTW, don't the more modern Visual Basic programs run
>only in Windoze, and are you not required to have the visual basic runtime
>modules installed in your Windoze OS in order for the virus to run? I have
>heard that there is a very old version of Visual Basic for DOS. I don't
>know if it is capable of running VBS, or Visual Basic Script.
>
>Regards,
>
>Sam Heywood
I remember MS created Visual Basic, which became so popular they produced a
version for DOS. But MS is now dedicated to the proposition that DOS is
outdated. I don't know if the earlier Visual Basics had any VBS. More
recently, MS used Visual Basic as a scripting language in some of their
application software, so a user didn't have to have the Visual Basic package to
run .vbs files. Other current MS apps such as Word have macro languages, and
reading an MS-Word .doc file with a rogue macro could have adverse effects.
I am not the expert on all this. I never had Visual Basic, never used MS-Word
or Excel.
