[Esd-l] regarding poisoned files...

[John D. Hardin]

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Howard Lowndes wrote:

> > Microsoft Office documetns are "special" and are subject to poisoning
> > even if they are not being mangled. That's the only exception.
> 
> This is confusing and is contrary to the doco.

Well, yeah, that's true. But it is discussed a little later on when
macro scanning is covered.

I'll clean that up.

Sorry for the confusion.

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