Appearence of corrupted Word documents crash system (HELP!)

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From: Steve Neruda
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1989 18:29

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I am administrating a ethernetwork of 12 mac SE's running Tops which
  are used for database, graphic, and word processing.  Yesterday
  we started to have system crashes when people would try to open
  certain Word documents (no pattern I can figure out as yet).
  The documents are used by many people so I can't easily find out
  who last modified the documents.

The system gives ID 3's or 10's when trying to open the documents, which
  I believe are trap errors.  Examing the documents with FEDIT there dosen't
  seem to be any obvious corruption, and using resedit all attributes are
  set correctly and there are no resource forks attached to the documents.
  No other program seems to be having this problem opening documents so
  I have replaced all the copies of word on our network, this does not
  seem to have solved the problem.

HELP!  I'm stumped at this point.  We have 100's of documents on the network
    so this is a real problem.  I've used Interferon to check things and
    it dosen't seem to see anything.  


Steve neruda (neruda@cis.ohio-state.edu)

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!neruda
From: neruda@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Steve Neruda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Appearence of corrupted Word documents crash system (HELP!)
Keywords: Word, System crashes, virus?
Message-ID: <36951@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 24 Feb 89 18:29:50 GMT
Reply-To: Steve Neruda <neruda@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science
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