Actually it allows you to imbed data and commands to run. What the latest MSWord virus did is imbed a virus dropper encoded in the word document and then run it trough the dos debug command to make it a binary file (if you ever read the 40HEX virus magazine you should know how this works).
From there it just run the dropper.
Aleph One / aleph1@dfw.net http://underground.org/ KeyID 1024/948FD6B5 Fingerprint EE C9 E8 AA CB AF 09 61 8C 39 EA 47 A8 6A B8 01 On Fri, 22 Sep 1995 dmandl@panix.com wrote:
Is that the new MS-Word you're thinking of? I hear that it lets you imbed macros containing executable code in documents. That's got to be one of the most dangerous ideas ever cooked up.
--Dave.
-- Dave Mandl dmandl@panix.com http://wfmu.org/~davem