On 1/19/01 10:00 AM, "Rick Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Recent reports I've read on a new Melissa virus say it *may* infect Mac
> systems running Office 2001, but they're vague. I tend to think that
> Entourage users are not at any risk. Can anyone confirm this with
> certainty? Right now, I have no virus protection, as my old version of NAV
> doesn't run on my new G4, and an upgraded NAV wouldn't run under OS X.
I did without NAV for almost a year because of some problem (I forget what)
when OS 9.0.4 came out. Big mistake. Three days ago I saw this 666 thing at
the top of my extensions folder. When trashed, it recreated itself.
Re-enabling NAV found over 100 application files, including control panels
and various Office 2001 apps infect with "a strain of the SevenDust C" virus
and repaired them. I'm lucky that SevenDust C is not particularly malicious:
no corrupted documents. But it must be the reason I was having lots of
crashing including being unable to start up with all extensions off and had
to boot from the OS CD and do a clean install twice in 4 days. I'm not
turning NAV off again. I'm on NAV 6 but am considering upgrading to NAV 7
because it scans email attachments before they download to disk (less
important on the mac than Windows but still - just clicking on the message
containing a virus attachment might set something off). I'd recommend
getting whichever NAV will work on your computer.
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Paul Berkowitz
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