On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 06:48:35PM -0800, Kai MacTane wrote:
> >I had been told that it didn't anymore, unless you enable that
> >behavior.
>
> Similarly, MS Word doesn't run any macros automatically, unless you
> specifically enable them in a particular document as you're opening it, or
> you specifically disable the feature that alerts you to the presence of
> code that wants to be automatically executed.
Really? I thought that others here had said that there was a loophole
when you received documents that were somehow trusted. I don't know
how that works, though.
> And, FWIW, I don't think people share documents like that very often. I
> think it's seldom enough that they'd say things to each other when passing
> them around, like "Word will tell you this document might have a virus in
> it, but it doesn't -- it's just this thing I wrote that does such-and-so."
Offices do set up documents with macros. Automated crud from HR and
finance related things, in my experience. A document for filing
expense reports with a table that adds things automaticly and prompts
for missing fields is one that I've seen. It's the standard at one
office that just seems to keep getting hit by virii. If that document
got infected and sent around they'd lose *days* of IS time.
-Peter
