Jerry Dallal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu: >It's lunch hour. I'm browsing. Shall I click on a link to a file >type that has the potential to carry viruses? OT1H, Karl is a >regular poster. OTOH, why run the risk? I guess I'll download and >look at it in WordView.
The file type was RTF. Unless I'm _VERY_ much mistaken, RTF cannot carry macros of any sort, let alone viruses. <http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.25.html#subj4> Oops, there is one loophole: <http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20.69.html#subj8.1> Note the advice to turn on "macro virus" warning in your copy of Microsoft Word, which should defang this particular risk. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA http://oakroadsystems.com/ "My theory was a perfectly good one. The facts were misleading." -- /The Lady Vanishes/ (1938) ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
