-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 30-03-99 at 14:10 Bronek Kozicki wrote: >There is another kind of protection (and I used it sucesfully in my network >for last few months). Just set NORMAL.DOT read only attribute. When exiting >Word user will be warned with message "unable to save modified Normal.dot" - >he/she then comes to support, and then we know that we have problem. Of >course - normal.dot is placed in user's profile. This is pretty simple kind >of protection against macro-viruses in Word. It takes only a few lines of VBA code to remove the read only attribute from the NORMAL.DOT file (of course left as exercise for the reader:). Since any user or any macro code can remove this attribute, this kind of "protection" is useless. Cheers, /Dim - -- Dimitry Andric <dimat_private> PGP key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~dim/dim.asc KeyID: 4096/1024-0x2E2096A3 Fingerprint: 7AB4 62D2 CE35 FC6D 4239 4FCD B05E A30A 2E20 96A3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Encrypted with PGP Plugin for Calypso iQA/AwUBNwIIlLBeowouIJajEQKsnQCggELVoEFoNR5XwKHjvvxxQxyqIk0AnRok GPkqmVfKX1e8E8HS2JMUzP2O =zQtQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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