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According to campus computer experts, the virus is thought only to affect PCs and possibly only computers with Microsoft Word...
Rick Osterberg '96, with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services, said the virus spreads through Microsoft Word documents. It infects the Microsoft Word program and also taints any documents saved with that copy of Word...
...student had opened a document on one of the infected House computers, then opened that document at home, the virus could be transmitted to the personal computer...
...Clearly, this is a destructive virus, if it lives up to its reputation," Osterberg said, referring to Dec. 13, when the virus is supposed to delete infected hard drives...
After the virus was identified with virus protection software, a Leverett User Assistant (UA) sent an e-mail message to all House residents warning them that the virus had almost certainly spread to some students' home computers...