rudy wrote:
who says a document has to be in a format that might contain some
worm or virus?
Dave followed with:
I just dump M$ Office completely and use OpenOffice, it'll still
open/save M$ Office files, but without the absolutely cretinous idea of
allowing executable code within a document.
g*2
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Subject: [wdvltalk] Re: [not OT] Serious advice!!!
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: your reply is infected.
: Norton Antivirus quarantined it but I couldn't even
do you guys and gals run a full system check while
working, or do you leave the machine dedicated to the job?
i got some kind of symantec software when i first purchased this computer,
but did not renew after the first year, so i haven't run a virus scan in
approx two years
rather than open
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From: rudy
i don't allow activex to run in IE
i don't allow OE to show html mail (goodbye web bugs -- yay!!!)
i don't open attachments
Sooner or later, you have to run somebody else's executable code. A new
browser, a word processor, an ftp program, a file
Sooner or later, you have to run somebody else's executable code.
no, i do not
rudy
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I agree BJ.
As a consultant I have clients that want me to review contracts,
specifications and all sorts of other documents - including items they want
me to put on their websites for them! If I wasn't opening attachments I'd
starve to death very quickly. I'm afraid I fail to see the point of
I'm afraid I fail to see the point of having access to the web
and email if you aren't going to receive - either via
download or from clients etc - documents as attachments.
you've swallowed the microsoft philosophy hook, line, and sinker
web = html, email = text
anything else is evil
who
oh, and before you say you're nuts let me tell you right away that yes, i
do get people sending me Word docs too
i just don't open them in Word, i open them in a Word viewer, where they
remain harmless
rudy
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Microsoft Word Viewer?
Microsoft Word Viewer?
yep
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9BBB9E60-E4F3-436D-A5A7-DA0E5431E5C1displaylang=EN
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by the way, microsoft also has viewers for its other PROPRIETARY formats --
http://www.microsoft.com/office/000/viewers.asp
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From: rudy
Sooner or later, you have to run somebody else's executable code.
no, i do not
Apologies, Rudy, I was thinking of us ordinary people, who don't even have
the talent, let alone the time, to write their own operating system and
macro assembler in hex
[snip some fairy tale]
...
are you *sure* you never execute anyone else's code? ;o)
if it is emailed to me, no, never
if i choose to download it from a reputable site, then of course
e.g. http://www.kaylon.com/power.html
but that's not what we were talking about
we were talking about
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and why would you need to virus scan reputable software?
Because there have been occasions when very reputable software has been
released on official CD and found to have been sent out with a virus
infection. Ok, I don't recall this having happened very
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On Tuesday 06 April 2004 18:01, rudy wrote:
I'm afraid I fail to see the point of having access to the web
and email if you aren't going to receive - either via
download or from clients etc - documents as attachments.
you've swallowed the
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