[OT] Emsisoft

Richmond Mathewson richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Sat May 22 16:34:20 EDT 2010


  On 22/05/2010 23:20, Neal Campbell wrote:
> Some of the nastiest and earliest viruses were macro viruses in excel and
> word documents. Most corporate machines prevent macro's from allowable
> execution without a warning (if they allow it at all). Also, thumb drives
> are possibly the biggest threat to corporate computers. An audit team from a
> top 3 firm I know tested the security mechanisms in a company by dropping
> infected thumb drives in the parking lot and watching how people picked them
> up and plugged them into the corporate computers.
>
> As the thumb drives, like cds/dvds, will play an autoplay file when mounted,
> its a perfect way to inject a virus if people allow it to run.
>
> Most secure shops prohibit thumb drives.
Thank you for that useful information.

However; all my client's computers (whether they run Windows or Linux)
use Open Office; I was unaware that a Word Macro virus could operate
via Open Office.



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