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Re: Double clicking on MS Office documents from Windows Explorer may execute arbitrary programs in some cases


From: "Jesper M. Johansson" <jjohanss () BU EDU>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:07:33 -0400

----- Original Message -----
From: "Francis Favorini" <francis.favorini () DUKE EDU>

Of course the above does not protect against a user being tricked into
opening a document from a share under the attacker's control somewhere
out
on the Internet.  "Standard firewall practices" blocking incoming and
outgoing NBT/CIFS/SMB should take care of that. ;-)

Hey, what about Web Folders?

They are not vulnerable.


Jesper M. Johansson


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