[ale] this week's WTF

[Tim Watts]

Viruses can definitely take up residence in Word files. My suggestion of
virus scan was aimed at the document not your system.


On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 15:03 -0500, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> Don't think it is a virus problem.  I can save other .doc files as .odt 
> files with no problem.  It is as if this particular file has some sort of 
> meta data that is screwing up the works. Cups can't process it for the 
> printer and I can't change the file format to .odt, or pdf, or any other 
> Micro$oft format.
> 
> I have no clue how to read the meta data on Word files. It is possible that 
> my wife's Mac has become infected, but that seems unlikely, unless she 
> contracted the bug through Emory.  Then again I haven't heard of any virii 
> that just screw around with Word files.
> 
> I was able, finally, to Save As an html document and then open and save 
> that as an .odt file.
> 
> But it would be nice to know how to isolate the actual problem.
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> 
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