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To: jERRY Ö¿Ö who wrote (34)	10/1/1998 10:55:00 AM
From: Fridrik Skulason	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 47

> Do you have an estimate of how many computers are infected by a virus hidden in a .doc file and sent by e-mail? Depends on what you mean by "hidden" - the viruses in infected .DOC files are in general easily noticed if you know where to look. However, detailed statistics are not available. What I can say, though is that Word viruses are the most common viruses nowadays. The most recent virus prevalence list I have puts two Word viruses in the top positions: Cap with 11% of reported infections and CopyCap with 9%. The virus in third place is Laroux - an Excel file infector. Whether those viruses enter a company through the sending of an infected E-mail or through other means, such as with an infected DOC file on a diskette in the mail is an open question, however. I am not aware of any study of the relative frequency of different infection vectors. All I can say for sure is that infected Word documents account for around 50% of all infections today, with the rest divided between Excel, Access, Boot and (regular executable) File infectors.