If you are really working on sensitive stuff, it better be on a separate computer that's not connected to the Internet in any way.

W. Wayne Liauh wrote:

when Alice gets this particular document back, it
contains a copy of the most sensitive files on your
computer - that big contract you're working on, say, or a
spreadsheet of salaries, or all of your Outlook data. Alice
gets the whole enchilada. And you never saw a thing: the
pilfered data is hidden inside the document.

http://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6914

Of course, this problem only happens with Word 97, we can safely assume that Microsoft must have already solved them in subsequent versions.



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