Are Macintoshes affected by the SirCam virus?

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Are Macintoshes affected by the SirCam virus?

Situation:
You have heard that there is a new email based virus threat that goes by any of the following names:
W32.SirCam.Worm
W32.SirCam.Worm@mm
W32/SirCam@mm
Backdoor.SirCam

You are wondering if there is any hazard of this worm/virus infecting your Macintosh.

Solution:
This is a Windows specific worm/virus and cannot infect or harm a Macintosh. But, being an email based virus, a Macintosh user could pass on the worm/virus, through infected email, to a Windows user.

For more information, please go to:

http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.html

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Document ID: 2001072408194711
Last Modified: 03/05/2002
Date Created: 07/24/2001
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