[luau] Beware of Using Word 97
Joe Linux
joelinux at earthlink.net
Sat Sep 7 02:20:00 PDT 2002
If you are really working on sensitive stuff, it better be on a separate
computer that's not connected to the Internet in any way.
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> when Alice gets this particular document back, it
> contains a copy of the most sensitive files on your
> computer - that big contract you're working on, say, or a
> spreadsheet of salaries, or all of your Outlook data. Alice
> gets the whole enchilada. And you never saw a thing: the
> pilfered data is hidden inside the document.
>
> http://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6914
>
> Of course, this problem only happens with Word 97, we can safely
> assume that Microsoft must have already solved them in subsequent
> versions.
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