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I would outlaw the sending and receipt of all MS document formats if a company really wanted security. Even a .txt file, if it contains "rich text" and you use Word as your default viewer, can contain a windows binary that can be executed. I've received zillions of these in the last several years and many other trojan horses. I don't even look at Word/Excel, etc. documents from people I don't know. It really is unbelievable how little security MS designed software has. Viva XML.... And Java. sdw Richard Tobin wrote: > > Yeesh. The *worm* sent the message, just like with happy99. All > > poor Fred did was open it, which in some mailers is automatic... > > That is the nature of a worm; it sends itself on. Get used to it. > > Fortunately I don't have to, I don't use MS Windows :-) > > I hadn't realised that there was a way for Windows viruses to find > what mailing lists you used. > > -- Richard > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... > Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 > To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > (un)subscribe xml-dev > To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > subscribe xml-dev-digest > List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) -- OptimaLogic - Finding Optimal Solutions Web/Crypto/OO/Unix/Comm/Video/DBMS sdw@l... Stephen D. Williams Senior Consultant/Architect http://sdw.st 43392 Wayside Cir,Ashburn,VA 20147-4622 703-724-0118W 703-995-0407Fax 5Jan1999 xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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