[16481] in bugtraq
Re: Microsoft Word documents that "phone" home
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rex Sanders)
Fri Sep 1 14:55:04 2000
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:37:04 -0700
Reply-To: Rex Sanders <rex@OCTOPUS.WR.USGS.GOV>
From: Rex Sanders <rex@OCTOPUS.WR.USGS.GOV>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
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Testing the demonstration "bugged" documents in MacOS Office 98:
Word 98 - works as advertised
Excel 98 - image doesn't load, "file error, data may have been lost".
PowerPoint 98 - image doesn't load, but error message looks like it could work with minor tweaking (image "ttp://..." couldn't be loaded).
I am very disappointed by Microsoft's response!
-- Rex
At 10:52 AM -0400 8/30/00, Richard M. Smith wrote:
>A demonstration "bugged" document for Word 97 and Word 2000
>has been set up at:
>
> http://www.privacycenter.du.edu/demos/bugged.doc
>
>We also found that Excel 2000 spreadsheet files and
>PowerPoint 2000 slideshows can be "bugged" in the same
>manner.
