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.