I so agree; and very glad that for some reason my machines have automatically shown the links, et.al., in any program - maybe it's the AV program I use, huh?
Here's a big THANK YOU to LO and all the good-guys out there fighting against those criminal forces! From: Mark Bourne <libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com> Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:03 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: disable "cntrl click to follow link" To: users@global.libreoffice.org 4130 wrote: Dave, > > Thanks for the solution & the image to my cntrl>click problem. Never > thought it would be a "security" issue. > I think the "security" issue is that hyperlinks can be formatted to look like normal text. Usually in a word processor you click to position the cursor where you want to edit text. Someone could send you a document, and when you click on that text (intending to position the cursor for editing it) you end up opening a web page instead - which may exploit a vulnerability in your web browser to install malware. With some vulnerabilities, you need only to open a web page designed to exploit it; you don't even need accept and run a download, or even realise that anything has happened. e.g. the first item under "Mitigating Factors" at https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS14-037 (about half way down the page). Even if they're not being malicious, it's somewhat frustrating to click on a bit of text and suddenly find some web page being opened when all you wanted to do was edit the text. Mark. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted