I have been trying to see if I can get any insight to this
subject from my Mac user circle. Unfortunately, to the person, no
one uses Office or any Microsoft product on their Macs. This is a
good question, as I have heard that their are some macros that can
be accepted via Office, as Microsoft and security are not necessarily
terms one can use on the same page, let alone in the same sentence.
If I hear anything substantive, I'll post something.
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On Jun 5, 2006, at 1:00 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Right, well as I understood it, people were writing viruses which
were inbedded into Macros that Microsoft Office used or rhather
shared amongst its modules and other applications, I'm sure someone
on this list can correct me or put me right and (as I said) with a
Mac it may be a non-issue.
On 05/06/2006, at 2:52 PM, Danny Crone wrote:
I am not sure about your question about macros. I know that office
is not my favorite program. In windows I just used word pad.
On Jun 4, 2006, at 9:34 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Now I'm not exactly sure about this but I'm wondering, suppose you
were using MS Office for the mack and you downloaded or received
via email a document containing infected macros, what sort of
havic could that play with your Mac system, it seems to me that
all systems would be vonerable to macro viruses possibly?
What do others think.
Also I'm surprised that no one has thought to inbed an apple
script in something in order to try and do damage.
On 05/06/2006, at 10:09 AM, Access Curmudgeon wrote:
Yes I believe that there are some viruses out there
Nope. By definition a virus can replicate itself without the active
(albeit ignorant) cooperation of an end user.
that can attack a Mac
There is malicious software that will erase files and the nature of
this software is disguised, typically to look like a jpeg image. But
that is a trojan, not a virus. In order to damage your system
one is
prompted (and must provide) the administrator password *twice*.
and I did think that Symantec had a virus solution for the Mac
If you are naive enough to pay money for something that doesn't yet
exist, Symantec is pleased to take your money. But the truth is
their
is little reason to believe said software will be effective when and
if a true OS X virus manifests.
Would $10 for software that will prevent both dinosaurs and space
aliens from deleting files on your computer be a good deal?
Dane Trethowan
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