Rarest, strangest, form of Windows saved techie from moment of security madness

A lighthearted anecdote recounts how a 1990s Excel macro worm failed to propagate when a designer opened an infected spreadsheet, as the worm’s Outlook mass-mailing routine couldn’t operate under the DEC Alpha Windows NT emulation environment; the story highlights user error averted by platform quirks rather than presenting a formal security incident analysis.