John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Simply never writing macros to normal.dot would have stopped the 
> propagation of many viruses, and depriving macros of the ability to 
> disable menu commands would have helped, too.

  It's not the first time when MS's concept of fixing a security hole is
to either ignore it (by argumenting it's not a problem) or going completely
overboard, instead of actually fixing the problem itself.

  Somehow it gives the impression of a beginner and proud-of-itself
programmer who is given a bug report. He either is too proud to admit
the problem, or can't imagine a better solution to it than to disable
half of the functionality of the program. You know, like those cases you
can constantly read at the daily WTF.

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                                                          - Warp

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