[PLUG] MS Office files with viruses; curable by Libreoffice translation?

John Bartley K7AAY john@503bartley.com john.bartley at gmail.com
Fri May 25 19:37:48 UTC 2018


If you leave scripts disabled in Libre Office, no VBS virii can run.
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john at 503bartley.com

On Thu, 24 May 2018 21:16:05 -0700 , the wizardly  Keith Lofstrom <
keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
>
>
> Friday, my sister will bring her old virus-infected Mac
> Mini over to translate/transfer files to a newer Mac Mini.
>
> I hope to copy MS Office user files onto a thumb drive,
> import the files into LibreOffice on a Linux Mint machine,
> and (hopefully) not the viruses.  We will install
> LibreOffice (not MS Office) on the newer Mac.  I tried
> setting her up with a Linux machine, but she "didn't
> like it".  Ah well.
>
> So - is Linux LibreOffice virus-INcompatible with MS
> Office for MacOS?  It may be safest to do the conversion
> on an isolated machine running a new Linux distro, then
> reformat over the Linux disk image afterwards.
>
> Details for Mac users: Her old Mac Mini can't upgrade
> beyond Snow Leopard; her newer Mini can run El Capitan,
> which is still getting security upgrades.  Eventually,
> she may need to get back on the Apple hardware upgrade
> treadmill.  I worry that Apple will stop supporting DVI,
> and we will need to purchase a new giant-screen monitor
> to accommodate her visual impairment.
>
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> Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com



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