Erma wrote:
>>universally held as "trash" on Usenet. They present a huge
>>security risk, on equal pegging as executables (*.exe) and
>>must include in posts, today.
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> Forgive my computer/Usenet ignorance here, but does this also include a
> text file created in notepad? Will that also carry the same information as
> MS Word?
No. They're fine.
To see some of the information that's in every Word document, open one
of your own documents and click on file/properties. Note that you can
change that information for the open file and then save with the
altered data.
- Herb
>>Just do not do it - upload MS Word files.
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>>The "Why"?
>>You look around the Net using "exploit" and "Word document"
>>as search terms and you will soon frighten yourself more
>>than I could possibly inject here in ABCP with my
>>attachment, trust me on that.
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>>The attachment shows you what you cannot possibly see
>>in a Word document without some extra tools and the skills
>>to decode the output. I have those abilities, so do thousands
>>of others. Microsoft -- in their efforts to dumbdown computer
>>tasks -- include all sorts of interesting stuff _about you_
>>in the Word document output, stuff YOU as the user are
>>blind to.
>>You have no activity in ABCP that isn't very "normal" for
>>Usenet, and none I can see that is in any way "illegal" as
>>such. That aside, there are those wankers in this world
>>who will take what they find (in your document) and use it
>>to harasses you. This has happened in ABCP before today.
>>And trust me, they were Americans that did the harassing.
>>
>>You go think about that, Gayle.
>>Think real hard... before you leap to and play "Blazing Saddles"
>>with my advice :-/
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