[Esd-l] Scanning for macros

[John D. Hardin]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Paul Thomas wrote:

> It is my understanding from the one paragraph on impsec regarding
> the scanning off macros, that the sanitizer does this by default
> unless disabled. Well I have not disabled scanning but I keep
> getting the following:
> 
> REPORT: Not a document, or already poisoned by filename. Not scanned for
> macros

This means that you have a filename rule that is poisoning it by
filename before it even decides it's eligible for scanning.

> Just what is the behavior of the macro scanning function anyway?

It looks for suspicious things in VBA macros, like messing about in
the registry, changing the application security settings, etc.

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