Developer's Guide to Web Application Security

Malicious Scripts or Macros

Probably the number-one form of attachment passed around the office is a word

processor document, such as Word or WordPerfect.These documents can contain

powerful macros that can do bad things just as easily as good things.The prime

example of the dark side of macros was the Melissa virus that caused major problems

for system administrators, which we’ll discuss later in this chapter.

Identifying Common

Forms of Mobile Code

Mobile code is defined as any code that travels through a network to be executed on a

computer, either on a browser or in an e-mail message.There are four types of

mobile code: macro languages, such as Visual ...