[DCART] Fwd: interesting point

[Glenn Thomas]

A friend of mine sent this as part of an ongoing discussion. I agree 
and think it bears repeating from time to time. (Don - perhaps 
another update to the section plan?)

Personally I try to use simple ASCII text whenever possible as this 
requires less bandwidth than the other options.

The only exception is when images need to be emailed. Here there is 
also danger because some image formats, among them "GIF", can include 
executable code, which has the same risks as Word documents.

73 de Glenn WB6W

>Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:16:39 -0700
>From: "Alan Biocca"
>
>WARNING - NEVER SEND WORD dot-DOC FILES. NEVER OPEN WORD dot-DOC 
>FILES FROM UNTRUSTED SOURCES. (since email can easily be forged to 
>appear to come from a trusted source, this is almost any email). 
>Microsoft put Visual Basic into the word dot-doc format years ago. 
>So it is trivial to put things like "FORMAT C:" into a word (or 
>excel) document. Always use RTF, TXT, PDF and other SAFE formats for 
>document interchange.
>
>Many internet viruses are microsoft visual basic based.
>
>One mad person can bring your whole Emcomm system down with a tiny 
>little visual basic program embedded into a document.
>
>-- Alan