[ale] this week's WTF

[Richard Faulkner]

Word files (.doc) were replete with macro viruses back in the 90's.
Pretty common sight that I recall....we ran into that a lot at the
company I was at in Greensboro.  Thankfully our mainframe was an AS/400
and only workstations got kludged-up.

Can you save the document as a .txt and then back to .doc w/o error?  If
the file was created by her on a Mac it is not so likely to be virus
(yes) but if it was created somewhere else?  Dunno.  

At XM we had issues with header data created by Protools LE on Mac
messing with audio files put into the main system.  Header data was not
compatible with Dalet and thus failed the files (even though the file
type was supported).  

Happy Hunting!   ----R


-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at speakeasy.net>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] this week's WTF
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:03:43 -0500


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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