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Re: Leftover data in other files (was Re: Sun StarOffice documents that "phone home".....)


From: Ryan Russell <ryan () SECURITYFOCUS COM>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 11:39:56 -0700

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 jsl2 () JEDITECH COM wrote:
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Kurt Seifried wrote:

What concerns me even more is this: under Windows I created a new
spreadsheet, inserted an image (http://blahblah), saved it and exited, then
ran it through strings, and saw some data from an email I sent a while ago.
WTF??? Closed outlook, tried it with starwriter, nothing, tried it again


How old is the software in question?
http://www.sfu.ca/acs/software/pc/service/oleupd.htm

Or has this problem been re-introduced?

                                Ryan


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