Microsoft Word and Excel documents with embedded harmfullobjects

[Rick Cooper]

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> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info]On Behalf Of Julian
> Field
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 4:13 PM
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> Subject: Re: Microsoft Word and Excel documents with embedded
> harmfullobjects
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>
> Wonderful!
> That sounds like a great idea, I hoped someone would have written
> something like that, but never found it before (though I haven't
> searched in a long time).
>
> Any ideas what it's written in or anything? It would be most useful to
> nick the technology inside it and incorporate it. As you say the file
> command can be used to spot likely candidates unless it's easy to spot
> files which aren't relevant.
>
> I will take a look at this next weekend, I'm away at the JANet
> Networkshop till Friday. Expect a posting about this next weekend, it's
> been one of my top hit features I want to implement for quite a long time.
>
> Thanks to Adri for finding this, let's hope it isn't a pile of old pony
> but is actually usable.
>
[...]

It's written in C, it's under active development and it has only been tested
on x86 hardware.

Rick


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