Re: Office security concerns

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From: slavins Simon Slavin
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 00:00

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In article <973346515snz@pdchem.demon.co.uk>,
Paul@pdchem.demon.co.uk (Paul Davis) wrote:

>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.

The people who care about the problem have pretty-much already
decided not to use Word or Excel.  Both programs include lots
of things in your file even after the patch -- the full path
to the document and previous saved versions, for instance.

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