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Vulnerability Word Affected Word Description Steven McLeod found following. When you open a Microsoft Word document which contains macros, the default security level causes MS Word to pop up a message box stating "This document contains macros, which could be a virus" and allows the user to "Disable macros" or "Enable macros". Alternatively, if the user's macro security is set to the most secure setting (requiring macros to be signed) all untrusted macros will automatically be stripped out from the document. This macro security feature of MS Word (in Office 2000 and Office 97) can be trivially bypassed by a malicious document, allowing macro code in the document to be run when the document is opened without prompting the user or notifying them that the document contains macros. Furthermore, the macro will be run without user knowledge even if the user's security setting is at the highest setting (automatically strip out untrusted macros). Solution Take a look at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-034.asp