At 16:33 4/06/98 -0700, John Stewart wrote:
>
> Word 97 allowed you to enable or disable the auto execute of macros.
>However, it may not always work as it appears there is a way to bypass
>the switch.
>
> Realistically, as long as you are dealing with the M$ Office product
>line and the ActiveX controls, macro viruses are a fact of life.
>"Flexibility and inter-operability" have been incorporated into the
>product line. With that comes the reality that you can e-mail a
>document with an Active-X control that will format the addressee's hard
>drive.
Hmmm. Glad I've moved away from using MS Office then. I still keep a copy
of Word 97 on my drive to open documents sent to me, but I generally know
where they come from. In future I'll virus scan them before opening (I use
IBM antivirus on my work ThinkPad and Norton AV on my home workstation).
besides, in my home office I'm slowly migrating to Linux. It'll take a
while to acquire all the programs I want and need, and learn to use them,
but when I do that's all I'll use.
franko
Frank Lee, Information Architect.
Member: Aust. DM Assoc., Market Research Soc. of Aust., Web Conslts Assoc.,
HTML Writers Guild, Internet Professionals Association. Associate, Aust.
Marketing Inst.
Interactive Strategist, IBM Australia Ltd & Managing Director, Wired World
Consulting.
http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/franko/
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