Legerdemain

[Steve Hodgson]

It now appears that Word documents received via email that couldn't be
opened in Office 12.1.0 can now be opened again in 12.1.1...

<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953822>

The security threats associated with type codes WDBN appear to have
gone away which is easier to live with.
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Cheers,

Steve

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Email steve 'at' shodgson 'dot' org 'dot' uk

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

<roll eyes>

 

[John McGhie]

I have a feeling that the security threats have not gone anywhere

I think they are just being a little smarter about their response. Instead
of "believing" the Type and Creator Code, I suspect they are looking in the
document to see if it is true.

Remember: The majority of the files that wouldn't open, in fact contained
modern versions of the Word document format, they were just labelled
incorrectly by the saving application.

I *hope* the effect of this change is that they will still refuse to open
automatically if they really ARE the old deprecated file formats.

Surely they wouldn't simply turn the check off and leave us to find out the
hard way? They wouldn't do that, would they?

Cheers

It now appears that Word documents received via email that couldn't be
opened in Office 12.1.0 can now be opened again in 12.1.1...

<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953822>

The security threats associated with type codes WDBN appear to have
gone away which is easier to live with.

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