In article , z (Bruce Sinclair) wrote:
In article .com, "MIG"
wrote:
On 12 Apr, 00:39,
(Bruce Sinclair) wrote:
In article . com, "MIG"
wrote:

Yeah, it's very annoying that the default setting seems to be to
disable macros without even telling you. I would have thought that
giving the option every time would be enough.

.. but how many people actually read the message before clicking OK ? :)

Remember ... there are a lot of very stupid people out there. That's how
most of the trojans still work ... by relying on the wet ware. :) :)

True, but it goes back to my original question about whether macro
viruses are a current threat or a ten-years-out-of-date threat.

Yep sure does ... and I don't know. I don't even know if the older macro
'viruses' will even affect the newer versions of the s/w ... anyone ?

I am reminded however of the 6 dumbest ideas in computer security ...
http://www.ranum.com/security/comput...umb/index.html

(or it was there a while back) where numb

oops - sorry for the followup to own message, but it seems to have got
garbled (more than usual :) ).

To continue ...

... where number one was default permit (meaning allow anything). I'd much
rather see default deny (as it seems to be) but agree that it should tell
you that's what it's doing at the least. Might be hard to work out why a
sheet isn't working otherwise for example :)