By default OpenOffice is set to not allow macro execution - perhaps
someone in the staff specifically went round and enabled it?
Douglas
On 22/05/2010 22:08, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
On 22/05/2010 23:47, Mark Wieder wrote:
Richmond-
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 1:34:20 PM, you wrote:
On 23/05/2010 15:10, Douglas wrote:
By default OpenOffice is set to not allow macro execution - perhaps
someone in the staff specifically went round and enabled it?
You don't know these people! They keep downloading the Windows version
of Skype onto
Linux machines because it is better than
ROTFL (spitting coffee)
-- you made my morning laugh
On 23 May 2010 07:21, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote:
I have the perfect plan for the virus problem these people are
experiencing: take all
their computers to the gypsy quarter where they will be scavenged for
I have been sorting out several machines for a client;
an office that uses a mixture of machines running
Windows XP, Ubuntu and MintLinux. The Windows
machines work in an intranet that has no connexion to
the internet or to the other intranet consisting of
the Linux boxes that are connected to
Some of the nastiest and earliest viruses were macro viruses in excel and
word documents. Most corporate machines prevent macro's from allowable
execution without a warning (if they allow it at all). Also, thumb drives
are possibly the biggest threat to corporate computers. An audit team from a
On 22/05/2010 23:20, Neal Campbell wrote:
Some of the nastiest and earliest viruses were macro viruses in excel and
word documents. Most corporate machines prevent macro's from allowable
execution without a warning (if they allow it at all). Also, thumb drives
are possibly the biggest threat to
Neal-
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 1:20:38 PM, you wrote:
Most secure shops prohibit thumb drives.
...and disable autoplay as well.
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-Mark Wieder
mwie...@ahsoftware.net
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Richmond-
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 1:34:20 PM, you wrote:
However; all my client's computers (whether they run Windows or Linux)
use Open Office; I was unaware that a Word Macro virus could operate
via Open Office.
If macro execution is not disabled then there's no reason why a macro
virus
On 22/05/2010 23:47, Mark Wieder wrote:
Richmond-
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 1:34:20 PM, you wrote:
However; all my client's computers (whether they run Windows or Linux)
use Open Office; I was unaware that a Word Macro virus could operate
via Open Office.
If macro execution is not disabled
