I had a Sev 1 APAR against PROFS (or when it became OfficeVision) by
pointing out that (at least on VM) sending a document with embedded .sy
control word could, say, quietly format recipient's A disk (for those
who've never touched VM, that's a VM user's personal storage). Tricky
fix was making NOSY (or whatever option disabled processing .sy) the
default. Presumably the problem and fix applied wherever OV appeared.
Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> said correctly:
> And when some "genius" at Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to
> be able to embed arbitrary code in a document, it meant that someone
could
> do anything they wanted to do to your computer just by sending you a
document.
To be fair, that issue existed in Script way back when.
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Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. [email protected]
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