On Feb 9, 2004, at 10:02 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
There is of course a need to check for viruses even if you can not be infected yourself.Just becuase you prefer a Mac doesn't mean you can get away wiyth infecting your PC using brethren with a Windows virus, even if it is pretty hard in mjost Mac mail clients.
PC viruses sit there like a dead lump of electrons on a Mac. You would have to work *hard* at sending one to a PC-using friend.
I'm hard pressed to think of a way this would be done innocently, and even so, that PC had best be buttoned up tight. Note I'm not advocating such a cavalier attitude towards PC's, the opposite, in fact. I view each PC as a plague carrier, and treat it as such.
Still current versions of Word and Excel are fairly well armored against macro viruses, and I haven't seen a new macro virus come through in quite a while, and those are largely the only easily transmissible virus.
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