I noticed the effects of this virus a few weeks ago (Word kept asking me if I wanted to enable macros whenever I would open a file that I had recently saved). Generally, I always tell word to disable any macros because so few files ligitimatley use them.
I didn’t pay to much attention to it because viruses don’t hurt Macs (and this one never did any damage either).
Then it became a nusance because I wasn’t able to email any word files to anyone because
I would get this error saying that I was trying to email viruses and that I am an evil person, etc. etc. So I spent the better part of a morning trying to figure out how to get rid of it.
I kept coming across sites that said just to disinfect the bad files with an Antivirus Software of some sort (See “Helpful Links” for the different ratings of Virus software for Macs). The problem was that I could not find the “Normal.dot” file. I tried everything from running scripts to make all files visible, to using spotlight, to going through the Libraries folder by folder. I never did find it. Then I came across a comment on a post that talked about using the Visual Basic Editor in Word to edit the Normal.dot file. And this worked like a charm! Here is what I did…
1. I just opened up Word (and a new, blank document if it doesn’t open automatically).
2. The go to “Tools -> Macros -> Visual Basic Editor”
3. On the Left is a box called “Projects”. The default selection is the blank document that you have open. Above that will be a cascading menu that will say “Normal”. 
(See the picture)
4. Once you click on “ThisDocument” a bunch of code will show up in the main window. Just select it all (Apple+A) and then delete it. All of it. Don’t spare a single character.
5. Save the changes (Apple+S, or select “Save Normal” under the File Menu)
6. Quit the editor (Apple+Q, or “Close and Return to Microsoft Word” under the Word Menu)
7. Close Word.
That is it! You are all done!!
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