Re: Tracking Word documents

["Joe Jaroch (Tera Innovations, Inc.)" <security () terainnovations com>]

It seems like it would be impossible to track anything back to a single 
machine without a database of existing machines. If it was possible, I'm 
sure the scores of macro virus writers would have been caught long ago.

-Joe Jaroch
Tera Innovations, Incorporated.

D'Aloisio, Marc wrote:
> In earlier versions of Office, Word documents were tagged with a GUID -
> a unique identifier that allowed one to track a word document back to a
> specific machine.  It appears to be removed from Word 2002 documents.
> Does this ability to associate a document to a particular machine exist
> in newer versions of Word?  The authors are easy enough to track, but I
> need to track to a specific machine, if possible.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marc
>
>
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