Scanning embedded objects in Word XML files

2006-10-01

Christoph Alme

Secure Computing Corporation, Germany

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Christoph Alme looks at the embedding of arbitrary objects into Word 2003 XML files and shows why finding them and passing them onto the virus scanner is not such a 'walk in the park' as one might expect.

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