Strange message in MS Word

This show up randomly

[travelin cat]

This is strange, some times the following shows up for no apparent reason:

"Twenty-two points, plus triple-word-score, plus fifty points for using all my letters. Game's over. I'm outta here."

I could be writing or saving and then poof! there it is...

Is this a programmers joke of some sort? I have to be careful not to send this off to a client embedded in a doc. This happens in the OSX version as well as earlier ones.

Any ideas? Any one else see this b4?

[oilman]

Sounds like a Macro virus called Melissa.
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[travelin cat]

oilman, thanks, it sure does sound like it is the virus. I thought we were impervious to it on Macs.... guess I was wrong.

Doesn't seem to be doing any thing else tho... on sys 10.3.7

thanks again.

[whoisgregg]

Macro viruses exploit the piece of software they run in, in this case Microsoft Word. Thankfully, a macro virus can only affect what's in the application that permits it to run. It can't run amok through your entire machine. :)