![]() ![]() So I would attribute this case more to a cosmic ray hit or the whim of electrons. I have never personally known of any executable Mac virus or worm on any of my colleagues' machines, and certainly not mine. Anyway, it should be a note urging computer backups and virus checking. But we all know that a crazy war is being waged against climate change researchers, and as a precaution I recommend running your own virus check at least on any Microsoft Word documents that passed through my computer. I suspect that it was simple, innocent corruption of my Microsoft Word program, and that it is fixed and was never a malicious attack. My own system has not picked up anything, but the behavior was pretty drastic. Greg Leonard had a warning from Microsoft that indicated a potentially serious threat from my file that I sent you and Frank (something about that it could contain code that would allow malicious control by a 3rd party, or something sinister sounding). The fix (apparently, was clean removal of Microsoft Office (all components), and reloading as simple as that (I hope). I have no definite indication of malware ion my system (virus checks showed nothing), but its behavior became as though there was malware that caused eventually inefficiency with Microsoft Word, high heat production from my hard drive, a burned-out hard drive, and then same troubles with a new hard drive, corrupted Microsoft Word files, and an eventual endless loop with Microsoft Word that almost froze ( or burned up) my entire computer. ![]() Now systems seem normal.I have to tell you this in full disclosure: Please run a malware check on any Microsoft Word file you opened that came from my machine (a Mac). ![]() I have had 3 terrible days (now finished), where I had a hard disk crash, and then continuing troubles reverberating with progressive and eventually complete loss of Microsoft Word and some other functionality.
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