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Hej NG!

Følgende har jeg d.d. fåt fra Brian. Det bekræfter det, jeg meddelte den anden dag, men giver samtidig en noget bedre forklaring.
mvh. Erik Richard

Brian Ferguson wrote:

> Hello fellow members,
>
> For members of the Nisus Dartmouth List and the Nisus eGroups list, I felt you may find this a valuable explanation of the above virus.
>
> Australian and New Zealand members will benefit most, but overseas users can contact their usual distributor/dealer.
>
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> Regards from Brian Ferguson.
> au Wed, 24 Jan 2001 : AET 2:45:44 PM
> with Nisus Email Quick Message.
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> From: "Luke Maslen, PICA Software" <support@pica.com.au>
> Subject: Virus alert: W97M/Melissa@MM
>
> Dear Virex customer,
>
> This email is being sent to all registered users of Virex 5.8.1 and
> newer. Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of
> this email.
>
> Network Associates has asked us to alert you to a variant of the
> Melissa virus that is now capable of infecting and replicating in
> Word 9 for Mac (ie MS Office 2001 for Macintosh) documents.
>
> This virus is receiving significant media attention and so we wish to
> let you know how it might affect you.
>
> Firstly, this Word macro virus is not entirely new. Virex first
> detected the Melissa virus in March 1999 almost two years ago.
>
> The Melissa virus has little impact on the Macintosh platform other
> than the usual annoying side effects of Word macro viruses, eg Word
> documents may become templates and MS Word may crash and cause
> corruption of the infected documents.
>
> The real impact of this virus is felt on the Windows platform where
> there are a number of nasty side effects. A detailed technical
> explanation for Mac & Windows customers can be found at
> <http://vil.nai.com/vil/virusChar.asp?virus_k=10132>. Part of this
> technical note states:
>
> "McAfee AVERT has received samples of W97M/Melissa@MM in a new file
> format; this format is Word9 / Office2001 for Mac. Although this file
> format is specific to Mac Office2001, it can infect a host system
> running Office97, Office98 (also for Mac) and/or Office2000.
>
> Customers using either Virex 6.1 with the January 2001 update or
> VirusScan Retail 5.15 with current DAT files do not require any
> updates. They have the 4.1.30 engine which is needed to detect and
> clean using the older DAT created a long time ago.
>
> Detection and cleaning was added for this format into 4117 DAT files
> scheduled to release for January 24, 2001 and requires engine 4.0.70
> or greater. This engine is needed for the MAC variant, not for the
> regular Melissa virus. The virus is not a MAC virus, it is a macro
> virus - it can spread on a MAC machine, and on a PC, it replicates as
> a regular macro virus. It doesn't mass-mail on MAC, it does on PC."
>
> In other words, Virex users should update with the Virex Virus
> Definitions 2001-01-01 and there are also solutions for Windows users
> of VirusScan.
>
> The ability of this virus to infect Word 9 for Mac documents is new
> and many antivirus products will not detect a macro virus contained
> in the new Office 2001 Macintosh file format. Virex Virus
> Definitions 2001-01-01 provide comprehensive detection and repair of
> macro viruses in Office 2001 for Macintosh files including Word 9 for
> Mac. We strongly encourage all Virex users to download and install
> this update so as to avoid passing this virus on to Windows users.
>
> * If you are using Virex 6.1, connect to the Internet, launch the
> Virex 6.1 application and click on the "eUpdate" button. Virex will
> download and install the latest update. If your Internet access is
> through a firewall that prevents you from using eUpdate, you can
> manually download and install the update from
> <http://www.pica.com.au/vupdate.html>.
>
> * If you are using Virex 6.0, p