Re: Virus scan *before* d/l [was Re: pkunzip]

[Samuel W. Heywood]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 19:42:12 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) 
wrote:

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> It's the same with wordprocessors.
> You can't get a virus by opening a document.
> As long as the author of the wordprocessor is SO EXTREMELY STUPID, to
> default to run ALL INCLUDED MACROS without asking !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> (and to allow including macros itself)

Is that another reason why MicroSoft Word is such a bad word processor?
Will using MicroSoft to open a MicroSoft Word document default to run
all included macros without asking?  Which word processors do you know
of are so defectively designed?

Sam Heywood
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