At 8:04 PM -0400 6/22/09, John Jasen wrote:
>Tom Shaw wrote:
>
>> You could copy your MS Word files to an OSX machine and check them.
>> You could search on eBay for an old AV program that worked on OS 8/9.
>> You could email the suspect file(s) to virustotal so check them. Or
>> you could turn off Macros in Word and copy the contents to new files.
>
>Take the disks out, put them in a computer that can run from a linux
>live cd, hope it has HFS support, and go from there?
Well if the OS 8/9 machines' have ethernet I'd just ftp to any
machine that has and AV system. If the files are small, copy to
floppy and then xfer them. If you have an OSX 10.2, I think, you can
remotely mount a OS 8/9 machine but I believe that the capability was
deprecated in later OSX versions.
Unfortunately there is not enough data on the person's config, amount
of files, what made them all of a sudden think they have a macro
virus in such an old version of word, etc.
Tom
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