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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (23168)	3/31/1999 3:20:00 PM
From: XiaoYao	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Do you understand what is a macro? When you enable a macro, you give the permission for somebody to run programs on your machine. If you give that permission, what is difference between you enable a macro and run an attached .exe? If I send you an email with a runme.exe in attachment, do you open it? It doesn't has to be a Word macro, it could be a lot of other ways. It could just be a shortcut to format.com on your machine. It just happened that hackers like to target on apps and OS that many people use. And easy of programming in VB helps too.

To: Harvey Allen who wrote (23168)	3/31/1999 7:11:00 PM
From: memery	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Coincidence? MS gets blasted by the media and everyone else when its revealed that they are using an embedded GUID to track Office docs. A frightening invasion of privacy. A few days later, the Melissa virus is released. This macro virus gets more media attention than any other in history, even though it doesn't actually harm anything. AMAZING!!!! They found the guy who wrote it!!! How? By using that very same secret GUID that the privacy groups hate. What a coincidence!!!! Maybe I'm just getting cynical in my old age, but I ain't buying it.