Re: Word Mac Virus - Really curious

2009-03-11 Thread nestamicky
Bruce Johnson wrote: On Mar 7, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Stephen Weber wrote: She might want to try a brand name antivirus like Norton or McAfee (If McAfee makes it for macs), I know McAfee for the PC scans before for viruses before installing. I use McAfee for my laptop and Norton for Mac

Re: Word Mac Virus - Really curious

2009-03-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 6, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: This from another list. Wondering if it's something that can cause trouble within Word on a Mac or just something that is on a Windows Word file and the Mac user passes it thru to another Windows user without being affected. I guess the

Re: Word Mac Virus - Really curious

2009-03-07 Thread Stephen Weber
She might want to try a brand name antivirus like Norton or McAfee (If McAfee makes it for macs), I know McAfee for the PC scans before for viruses before installing. I use McAfee for my laptop and Norton for Mac OS 9. I have all the auto scanning and auto protection off for Norton, to save

Re: Word Mac Virus - Really curious

2009-03-07 Thread John Musbach
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: After that, Word Macro viruses vanished in the wild...I haven't seen one that did not come from a very old archived file in years and years. Why the hell Microsoft couldn't apply that lesson to the rest of

Re: Word Mac Virus - Really curious

2009-03-07 Thread Stephen Weber
I'm using Vista right now (I don't have a Apple Laptop so when I'm away I have to bring my Vista Laptop), in Vista there are a couple things that Microsoft has built into Vista that helps stop malware if it gets past the security software There's that UAC which was mentioned by John, Windows

Re: Word Mac Virus - Really curious

2009-03-06 Thread Vic
 anyone have more clues i could offer her (being a PC person   myself)? good anti-virus programs for a Mac? Anne Keller Smith Down to Earth Web Design ClamXAV http://www.clamxav.com/ iAntiVirus http://www.iantivirus.com/ V Mabus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You