XPost: alt.os.windows2000   
   From: me@privacy.net   
      
   Well, I was not very clear with my comments, so I'll elaborate a bit.   
   Products such as word processors and spreadsheets are sometimes well   
   suited for "automation" features, yet allowing the programming   
   language (be it Word Basic or Visual Basic for Applications) to   
   perform unknown actions when a user merely opens a document or   
   spreadsheet file is quite disturbing.  Granted, there were patches to   
   Word to prevent macros from running, but if one receives a document   
   via email and is advised there are macros therein upon opening the   
   file, and the source of the document is a "friendly" source, I suspect   
   the average user will allow the macros or code to "execute".   
      
   --   
   Best regards,   
   Kyle   
   "Kurt"  wrote in message   
   news:10f6j4k403vlff3@corp.supernews.com...   
   |   
   | I'll wager you they considered many of them. Then decided they were   
   worth   
   | the risk. Their own mechanisms for registration confirmation,   
   reporting,   
   | information gathering, etc. bite them in the butt when someone else   
   figures   
   | them out. If they worked on ways to keep themselves out instead of   
   creative   
   | ways of sneaking in, they'd keep most everybody else out as well!   
   |   
   |   
   | "Kylesb"  wrote in message   
   | news:2lfsh8FbsscjU1@uni-berlin.de...   
   | > "Harlan Osier"  wrote in message   
   | > news:89ec59b9.0407111831.4854155a@posting.google.com...   
   | > | This would explain the many bugs...   
   | >   
   | > Heh, human beings wrote the code, this explains the bugs.  Given   
   my   
   | > experiences in writing code to beat a deadline, let me assure you   
   it's   
   | > easy to make an error that goes undetected until much later on.   
   One   
   | > stray pointer can cause a lot of unknown problems.   
   | >   
   | > What unnerves me about MS software products is all the gaping   
   security   
   | > holes, as if no one at MS ever considered the dangers of a   
   software   
   | > product that "runs code" without the user desiring such to happen.   
   | > --   
   | > Best regards,   
   | > Kyle   
   | >   
   |   
   |   
      
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