Paul Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ferd Lazarus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I presume that uuencoding a Word file, that contains a
> > virus, does nothing to disable the virus once the
> > file is uudecoded back to the original format.
> >
> > The question: Is there anything you can do to disable the
> > uuencoded virus and still recover the message?
You can disable the Word 'feature' of automatically executing a
startup macro. I would recommend disabling that 'feature' in Excel
too.
> BTW. This is my first post to web-consultants. I'm a fulltime Linux
> jockey running the webfarm at www.nfg.nl and building intranet-servers
> in the Netherlands.
As you can see, consistently preaching the gospel of the
web-consultants association finally convinced my brother to come and
have a look ;-)
:*CU#
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