[Esa-l]false positives on VirusProtection

Phil Pennock pdp at nl.demon.net
Wed May 23 06:51:59 PDT 2001


On 2001-05-23 at 06:30 -0700, John D. Hardin wrote:
> You may want to suggest that they save the document as RTF and reload
> it in order to strip all remaining bits of the virus out.

Seen:
 <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19111.html>
?

If using Word to view RTF files, you're vulnerable to embedded macros.
Including potentially viruses.

Most versions of Word will not have fixes made available, because
they're no longer supported.
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