> -----Original Message-----
> From: Castro, Edison M. (PCA) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> That is exactly the same way that all Windows virus work. As a Windows
> user (as well as other OSes), I can say that people have to be
> responsible
> for their actions. Whenever you receive any Email attachment,
> the only way
> that attachment can produce any damage is if you run it.
>
> At least in my copy of MS Word anytime I open a word document and it
> contains
> any macros, Word readily ask me if I want to allow the macro to execute.
> Not only that, this version of Word (2000) is configured to only
> ask me when
> a signed (with a certificate of a trusted party) macro is included.
Suppose you made the mistake of opening a Word document with a VBA (Visual Basic for
Applications) script virus. (I did this once and I am sharing a real-life
experience.) The VBA script turns off the option that disables automatically running
scripts. I kid you not! Next time you open a Word document that contains a script,
you won't be asked whether you want to run it. If you go into the options settings
and set the option to disable running scripts, you have done nothing, because the
virus script runs when you close the document and turns the option back off again.
At least not allowing macros to disable the don't-run-macros option seems reasonable
to me, but it seemed to have escaped the engineers who created Microsoft Word.
Doug Sauder
Software Engineer
Broadsoft, Inc
