I would provide the hack itself, but I'm on a Mac that lacks a proper Base64 handler at the moment. For people who only know how to use Netscape, the URL is news:465l8h$6sa@oznet03.ozemail.com.au. -rich From: lyal collins <lyalc@ozemail.com.au> Newsgroups: alt.security,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc Subject: Re: More Microsoft Security Bugs Date: 19 Oct 1995 13:53:21 GMT Organization: not very, at the moment Lines: 366 Message-ID: <465l8h$6sa@oznet03.ozemail.com.au> References: <llurch-1510951157410001@tip-mp3-ncs-3.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: slsyd3p02.ozemail.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-------------------------------297591414826100" X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) Further to word document password protection, the attached offer a simple way to recover text in such files with this "protection". The source is included - at least one shwareare developer has taken up on this technique and releases a VB based version. cheers, lyal -rich graves, llurch@networking.stanford.edu moderator of the win95netbugs list http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~llurch/win95netbugs/faq.html My old PGP key has been compromised. Please finger this account for the revocation certificate and my new key.