The computers were spread from Cairns to Adelaide and there were only three of us in the IT department. It didn't affect us until we sent it to the government. Of course, that didn't work on a Mac so we were unaware that we even had the virus. On a Windows machine, the virus in question also attempted to deleted the C: drive. Shortly, we found that we couldn't submit the Word documents to the government agency responsible for paying us because they were rejected at their email gateway. As files were shared around, more and more computers were infected. As well as documents, it could infect the preferences file and after that, any Word document you opened up on that same computer. It executed only within Microsoft Word but the macro language is the same across Windows and Mac computers so it ran just fine. Someone managed to bring a Word macro virus into the system. We were essentially a government contractor and, as such, nearly all our money came from sending Microsoft Word documents to the government to document what we had done and what we should be paid for. Back in 2003, I was working in tech support for a Mac-based organisation.
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