Re: FM and virus

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

John,

(1) We know of no instances of an actual virus being detected in
a FrameMaker document, template, or book file of any type or version
(including .mif and .mml).

(2) We are not aware of any possibility of putting such a virus
in these files given that scripts and executables are not part of
the formats.

FYI, many years ago, FileMaker (before they started euphemistically
started calling it "FileMaker Pro") also used the .fm file suffix
before they started using .fp# (where # is the major version number).

        - Dov




At 4/2/2004 01:55 PM, John Posada wrote:
>Hi, guys...my MIS department just installed an upgraded MacAfee virus
>software and we've been talking about what types of files to let through
>as email attachments.
> 
>He's going only with the recommended list of allowable files from
>MacAfee and I'm proposing that he also let through .fm files.
> 
>Any reason I shouldn't?  What I mean, is that is there any history of
> 
>1) Framemaker harboring malicious code (I'm almost positive this is a
>no)
>2) other file formats that DO run code that have .fm extensions 
> 
>BTW..we think it ironic that what MacAfee does consider safe is MS
>Office files.
> 
>John Posada


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