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Re: Microsoft Word documents that "phone" home
From: Hal DeVore <haldevore () EARTHLING NET>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 16:23:32 -0500
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, "Don" == Don Halterman wrote:
Don> 3. I would expect that IE has distinct features to handle Don> cookies (though I've never used it); the web page points Don> this out. However, despite MS's best efforts to make it Don> otherwise, there are other browsers such as Netscape and Don> Opera--I saw no mitigation notes for those. This is an educated guess at the moment so take it FWIS. Word and other "internet enabled" applications built by Microsoft are probably not using your browser exactly. They are almost certainly using the wininet.dll and the API to it. And wininet.dll is part of IE. So effectively, they're using IE. --Hal
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- Re: Microsoft Word documents that "phone" home Don Halterman (Sep 01)
- Re: Microsoft Word documents that "phone" home Hal DeVore (Sep 02)
- Re: Microsoft Word documents that "phone" home Rob Slade, doting grandpa of Ryan and Trevor (Sep 01)
- Re: Microsoft Word documents that "phone" home Rex Sanders (Sep 01)
- Re: Microsoft Word documents that "phone" home Kris Kennaway (Sep 01)
- Re: Microsoft Word documents that "phone" home Michael Wojcik (Sep 01)
- Re: Microsoft Word documents that "phone" home Microsoft Security Response Center (Sep 01)
- Re: Microsoft Word documents that "phone" home Terje Bless (Sep 02)
- Re: Microsoft Word documents that "phone" home Brad (Sep 02)
- Other file formats that can "phone" home Richard M. Smith (Sep 03)
- Re: Other file formats that can "phone" home jsl2 (Sep 04)
- Re: Other file formats that can "phone" home Richard M. Smith (Sep 04)