ike 95-99% depending on your definition of
"compromise".
If that isn't what you meant, perhaps you can elaborate on that statement?
Brian
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OIT Security and Assurance
University of Minnesota
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if the
argument is that the original file is still protected. The goal is to
protect the data and the data is compromised once the file is saved in a
different format.
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From: Brian Eckman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 4:17 PM
To: Leif Gre
mple, I would take the Word doc, highlight everything, copy and paste
it into a new Word doc and save it over the original "protected"
document. It would be a heck of a lot faster than the methods that have
been described.
Brian
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Brian Eckman
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OIT Security and Assuran
heir "recognizing by file extension method"
actually *prevented* the bypass, not caused it.
I then opened the file with Internet Explorer and it was a bunch of garbage.
Am I missing something?
Brian
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Brian Eckman
Security Analyst
OIT Security and Assurance
University of Minnesota
612-626
the .html back into the .doc, then
you can do what I mentioned above as well.
I still fail to see any flaw here. What was reported is opening the HTML
file in Office and the protection is gone. The HTML file is a *new* file
that you created; the original Office file still has the protection.
Tha
that.
If you want to use it's "protection", leave it in .doc format. Passwords
are still crackable with the right software, but that isn't news.
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ion in any file/folder properties windows.
As far as I remember, I reinstalled and configured everything as I
ever done in the past, so I do not have any idea why the perimission
tab does not show up in the properties windows.
Any tips to how solve the problem.
Thank in advance.
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My former department here runs Guinevere and GroupWise. In February,
Klez.H accounted for 83.8% of the viruses/worms blocked by Guinevere.
This month so far it's 86%. Nelson Labs uses a program that I wrote to
post their Guinevere stats to the Web. Between February and March,
Klez.H accounts fo