Word Macro Virus
Word Macro Virus
Word Macro Virus infects Word documents but is possible to detect
and destroy. If you feel that your Microsoft Word is behaving in a
strange way maybe it is living in your PC. These are some of the symptoms :
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The behaviour of Word is changed.
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It seems that the normal.dot file is getting altered . what
happens is that the save/save as key behaviour is getting changed,
in that you can no longer do a straight save - you'll notice if your
word has probems as there won't be a macro or customise option in the
options menu. Also if you use the ? arrow key to get help on most menu
bar
options you get the correct help. In an infected word try getting
help on
the save menu and you'll find that the help for macros comes up!
This is
because those menu items have been redifined using a running macro!
(Check also open, save, save as., templates).
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Another hint that you have a problem, if you open a read-only
file you
get a microsoft error box pop up warning that it is a read-only
file with
err=1057 or something - this is actually a word macro error box
- warning
you that the open command is actually running a (virus) macro!
Under
normal operation word does not through up a warning box when opening
a
read-only file!
But, don't panic is very easy to get rid of it :