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Testing. 1, 2, 3... / Re: Microsoft Warns That Word Docs Are Ticking Timebombs
« on: December 09, 2006, 01:53:12 AM »With all due respect to MB, I'm gonna trust my IT guy on this.
Actually, the wording that Word docs are "ticking timebombs" is Microsoft's own wording - it's not fear mongering, or an irrational warning on the part of some reactionary party outside of Microsoft to a trivial situation, or an urban legend. And what your IT department said, what I said, what the publication eWEEK (which published the article that I linked to and which is one of the leading and most respected publications in the IT industry) said, and what Microsoft itself has said is all the same thing. However, that doesn't lessen the very real fact that some people WILL indeed click those links in e-mailed Word docs and they WILL indeed visit those malicious Web sites. Sadly, that's an absolute fact because that's exactly how viruses, trojans, worms etc. become epidemic.
I merely post these notices to alert the forum's members and guests to very real potential dangers. Most will probably already know enough not to do what's being warned against - but some may not...