[16517] in bugtraq
Re: Microsoft Word documents that "phone" home
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cassius@HUSHMAIL.COM)
Sat Sep 2 14:13:59 2000
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Microsoft needs to be consistant here. Excel 2000 auto-refreshing web
queries give the user a warning that the worksheet is about to pull untrusted
external data. This same policy needs to be enforced on all internet aware
Office files.
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