Re: scripting language security

Subject: Re: scripting language security
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Fri Apr 13 2001 - 01:47:36 CDT

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Patrick Lam écrit:

> So, what's our story for avoiding macroviruses?

Not executing macro automagically at file openning (or worse, template
openning) is a good start.
Word macro viruses always start by putting a documentOpen macros in
normal.dot. documentOpen (or whatever its name is) is a macro executed we
the document is open by Word, and normal.dot is the default template opened
each Word starts. That's it.

Hub

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