Office 2003 Timesaving Techniques For Dummies
Chapter One
Making Windows
Safe for Office
Technique
Every Office user needs to take security seriously. The cretins who
make programs that melt down the Internet, pummel sites with
bandwidth-clogging pings, or simply diddle with your data, are
constantly trolling for unwitting accomplices. Foil their plans by keeping
your wits about you.
Security is more than just an ounce of prevention. On rare occasion,
viruses can wipe out all your data, and worms can bring your e-mail
connection to its knees. Far more insidious, though, are the time-sucking
security problems that aren't quite so obvious: the malware
that lurks and infects and destroys invisibly or intermittently.
Office rates as the number-one conduit for infections because it's on virtually
every desktop. On most machines, Office amounts to a big, wide-open
target. Windows might get infected, but frequently the vector of
attack goes through an Office application.
No Office is an island: It's tied into Windows at the shoulders and
ankles. To protect Office - and to protect yourself - you must start
by protecting Windows, by applying updates, getting Windows to
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