[OT] Emsisoft

Douglas dougtechie at tiscali.co.uk
Sun May 23 08:10:37 EDT 2010


By default OpenOffice is set to not allow macro execution - perhaps 
someone in the staff specifically went round and enabled it?

Douglas

On 22/05/2010 22:08, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>  On 22/05/2010 23:47, Mark Wieder wrote:
>> Richmond-
>>
>> Saturday, May 22, 2010, 1:34:20 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>> If macro execution is not disabled then there's no reason why a macro
>> virus shouldn't propagate. I realize that's tautological, but you
>> asked...
>>
> Right; first thing tomorrow I will have to disable macro execution
> on all 10 machines.
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> As 99% of my work is with Linux and Mac I had actually forgotten about
> Word Macro viruses, although I had one messing up my LC 475 in
> illinois a while back.
>




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