Comments for benevolent word virus

benevolent word virus

2002-09-23T15:09:53Z

What about a Word macro virus that searched all available drives for Word documents, converted them to HTML, and then propagated itself to as many other users as possible?

Comment from Brennan on 2002-09-23

2002-09-23T15:22:25Z

Or better yet, search all available drives for "HTML" documents authored using Microsoft products and convert them to HTML.

Comment from tomas on 2002-09-23

2002-09-23T15:46:51Z

Brennan: that'd be a first, a helpful virus..

Comment from TheBrad on 2002-09-23

2002-09-23T16:30:03Z

I'm with Brennan!

Comment from Anil on 2002-09-23

2002-09-23T17:47:50Z

Oh, I was referring to the HTML output by the "filtered HTML" option in Office, which is actually pretty clean. But yeah, imagine if the virus output true HTML.

Comment from Mark Crane on 2002-09-23

2002-09-23T18:31:51Z

I love the idea of viruses that fix microsoft problems.

A *lot* of people don't have or don't know about the filtered html option.

How about converting all the docs to "rtf" and setting the default to save as RTF? That'd be cool too.

Comment from Michael Doss on 2002-09-23

2002-09-23T22:11:45Z

That's not a virus, that should be a feature...

Comment from Nick on 2002-09-24

2002-09-24T13:33:47Z

I suggest: XML.

Comment from Andre on 2002-09-24

2002-09-24T22:35:53Z

I'd be happy with one that renamed .htm files to .html.