Sorry for not scrolling done this far, Peter<g. Nope, I have never
personally received a file with a virus attached. I had someone send me one
he got years ago just so I could look it over As you say it seems so....
twentieth century. First Word and then Outlook were much more popular, as I
recall. But even those seem to have faded away.

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Jim
"Peter T" <peter_t@discussions wrote in message
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| Just curiosity, have you or anyone actually ever received a malicious
virus
| in an Excel xls/a.
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| A couple of years ago I searched the big name antivirus sites and the only
| mention I could find was documented last century, I think a file for XL95
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| Regards,
| Peter T
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| "Jim Rech"
| Back in the day when "macro viruses" were all the rage they sometimes
| propagated programming the VBE itself. I think the misanthropes have
| mostly
| moved to the web so not a great deal to worry about, and you can always
| disable all macros when opening a workbook.
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