atw: Re: OT: Viruses

I've noticed that OO uses a different macro language - a less complex 
one, Basic I think - and assumed it wouldn't read/run/recognise VBA.  I 
could well be wrong!

- Naomi

> > I'm very interested to see how well some non-Microsoft software (in
> Microsoft's territory) avoids viruses. I'm thinking in particular of
> OpenOffice, which can read and write MS Office documents. It has a
> macro language, so executing macros stored in MS Office documents
> seems like a natural thing for it to do. But whether it should or does
> or ever will (or whether doing so is safe) are all a different matter
> entirely. =20
> 
> Excellent thought! I'm sending my Normal.dot home to see what OO does
> with it!

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