RE: Web Development Software

Agreed, VBA is no security risk if used strickly for server side function.
The browser never even knows it executed because it doesn't run on the
browser at all.

However, I do agree that Microsoft does leave HUGE hole in security by
enabling VBScript on the browser. Don't allow your browser to execute script
from a unrecognized source.

Ken Slaugh  (707) 795-1512 x118
Chouinard & Myhre, Inc.
AS/400 Network Administrator / MSE
Client Access/400 Specialist
http://www.cm-inc.com/


-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Lundgren [mailto:lundgren@iris-software.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 3:20 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Web Development Software


At 03:12 PM 3/28/00 -0600, you wrote:
> > VBA is used to extend the editing environment; hardly a security issue.
VBA
> > is currently an under-used but really powerful feature of FrontPage.
>
>VBA is currently a melting pot of security holes. See the following link
>for a short list af all the wonderful things VBA allows virus writers to
>do to your PC.
>http://search.nai.com/mediasearch/cgi-bin/mediasearch.exe?0=0&1=0&5=compact
&3=0&4=macro&6=10&45=0&46=1&7=0&7=8&7=10&search=SEARCH

This has everything to do with Word macros and nothing to do with FrontPage 
Add-ins written in VBA.

> > This is a four by four table generated in FP (I hope this comes
through):
>
>That was much better than earlier versions. Did you touch the code at
>all, or is there a new feature which allows you the specify that all
>HTML tags be in lower case?

I didn't do anything to the code. I pressed the button to generate a table, 
specified 4 x 4 cells, toggled to the html view, and copied the resulting 
code. And yes, you can specify that all tags appear in lower case. Pretty 
cool...

>Non breaking space is just a place holder in this case. What I hate is
>when Frontpage puts 50 or 60 breaks in your code to position the
>elements.

Hmm... I'm not sure what you're referring to. This might be an artifact 
from older versions of FP.

  ... Chuck

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