I had a iBook with OS 9 and saved many documents on disks.
I now have a MacBookPro with OS X.
Every time I insert my old CDdisks, all .doc files show up with the W97M.SATT.DAM C virus that my purchased Norton Antivirus is unable to remedy.
is attached to word documents. a friend rid it from my husbands resume which he was trying to upload to monster. there doesn't seem to be a program to get rid of it on a mac. so everythng i open just gets infected on my 3 machines. other than taking it to a pc and running the program my friend had, is there a (program) that will allow me to get rid of it? i know it doesn't affect my machine but pcs will not take these docs. I don't work in word, just use it to open client documents and copy into quark.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
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