You're showing your age. ;-) Word macro viruses haven't been much of a problem for 6 or 7 years ever since Microsoft went to signed VBA code in Office.
However similar problems do existing with scripting code run by the Windows Scripting Host. Perhaps WSH doesn't get whitelisted? Richard -----Original Message----- From: Drsolly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 6:19 PM To: Richard M. Smith Subject: Re: [funsec] Texas Bank Dumps Antivirus for Whitelisting Another one who hasn't heard of Word acro viruses and similar. On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Richard M. Smith wrote: > http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=158750&WT.svl=news1_4 > > Brent Rickels, senior vice president at First National Bank of Bosque > County, had grown tired of dealing with antivirus software. He was tired of > regularly updating virus signatures, tired of hackers constantly tweaking > malware, and tired of worrying about what users had downloaded onto their > PCs. So Rickels dumped the bank's AV software for a whitelisting product and > in the process, become one of its first commercial customers. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
