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Re: Email based attack on University



On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 08:41:11AM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote:

> Here is one thing which actually make everybody safer: Do NOT (NEVER!) accept files
> which might include executable code.
> Office files (MS or OO )

Open MS files with LibreOffice, which won't run the VBA, or with the
Word/PowerPoint viewer apps from Microsoft, which work great under Wine and
also can't run VBA. Have LO files ever actually been vectors?

> only PDF/A is OK every other PDF, throw it out.
> No multimedia (movies, mp3).

Really? MP3? Paranoid much?
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