> From: "Hussein Shafie" <hussein at pixware.fr> > Mike Maxwell wrote: >> Hussein Shafie wrote: >> >>> Philip Nye wrote: >>> >>>> Is there a way to have a macro run automatically when a document of >>>> the appropriate type is loaded? >> >> >> Is this a dangerous thing to do? That's how WordBasic viruses get >> around. But maybe the sorts of macros that run in XXE can't do anything >> dangerous? (I've never used them, so I'm ignorant...) > > Virus authors need software which are in widespread use to propagate > their viruses. And XXE is not ( yet ;-) ) famous enough for this to happen.
There is also the fact that Word macros are embedded in the documents which people edit and exchange. XXE macros are part of a config file and are not embedded in the normal XML files people are editing. This doesn't mean its impossible, but certainly a lot less easy. Philip Nye
