Melissa on MacIntosh...

[Steve]

kgleason.ma.ultranet at rcn.com wrote:
 > I was asked yesterday by a colleague "How do you remove the virus Melissa
 > from a McIntosh computer"? I always thought that Mac's were virus 
free (or
 > resistant). This faculty member says she tried Norton's Antivirus with no
 > luck...anyone able to shed light?

More like "virus writers get more bang for the buck targeting the much 
larger Windows crowd". Would be interesting though to see the ratio # of 
new viruses detected per X time / target computers to see how the 
platforms fare in the virus department.

This is more of a Microsoft office suite virus than a platform specific 
one. If Linux users had an MS office suite during the Melissa heyday or 
running something like Win4Lin all the time, they'd have the same problems.

Steve