Re: Office security concerns

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From: Paul Davis
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 00:00

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In article <031120002121486140%richardb@sailmaker.co.uk>
           richardb@sailmaker.co.uk "Richard Buckle" writes:

> Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Paul@pdchem.demon.co.uk (Paul Davis) wrote:
> > 
> > >When I examine the decoded e-mails on my machine using
> > >a primitive text editor, I am horrified to see that after
> > >the body of the message, there is often a large quantity
> > >of unrelated material which can be identified as
> > >fragments of old documents, e-mails etc
> > 
> > Word is famous for doing this. I'm not sure what can be done about it.
> 
> You can find patches to cure this at
> <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/download/>
> Click the "Patches and Updates" tab.
> 

Thank you for this Richard, it's exactly what I need.

The actual information about the "Unwanted Data patch" is buried
quite deeply wthin the MS website, and I failed to find it using its
search facility.  Considering the potential seriousness of this flaw,
I'm surprised it's not much better known.

-Paul
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