RE: [WinMac] making a mac cd-rom
John Nurick(jnurick[at]locum-destination.com)
Thu, 23 Dec 1999 15:27:19 -0000
It's worse than that. First they produced WordBasic, which is quite distinct
from VB, with no security against malignant code (whether virus, trojan, or
whatever). They kept this going through Winword 1.0, 1.1, 2, and 6 and
MacWord 6.
THEN, with viruses abounding, they introduce VBA first in Excel and then in
Word and PowerPoint, STILL with no security.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Welch, John C. [mailto:jwelch@aer.com]
> Sent: 22 December 1999 18:37
> To: winmac@lists.best.com
> Subject: Re: [WinMac] making a mac cd-rom
>
>
> well, my major point is, is that by making macros a subset of
> VB, any moron
> with 3 functional brain cells *should* have seen the
> potential for abuse. If
> windows didn't ALLOW you to format the current boot disk, or bypass
> user-specified security options, a lot of this problem wouldn't exist.
>
> BTW...this is one of the reasons you don't see applescript
> virii...there are
> things you just can't do in the MacOS without entering *some* sort of
> password at least once.
>
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