Re: anti-malware progs ineffective

From: Mark Jones (abuse_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:54:01 -0500

Ken Smith wrote:
> In article <1107042460.352438.158490@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> JeffM <jeffm_@email.com> wrote:
> [...]
>
>>Reminds me of an Excel purchase order form I used to have to use.
>>Each one took 250kB of my HDD.
>
>
> I think Excel also has the security problem I pointed out for Word. A lot
> of that extra space is just a snapshot of the RAM in the PC when the
> document was created. They allocate big chuncks of memory, don't clear it
> and save it as part of the document. Any time you send a MS file out of
> your PC you are also sending a chunk of who know what.
>
>

 I use OpenOffice, http://www.openoffice.org/ , it saves all documents in a
zip-compressed XML format.

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