[dba-Tech] Securing Excel File to avoid E-mail forwards

Here is a book chapter on Office Security and DIRM
Secure your documents with Word 2003's privacy and security options
Step by step instructions on IRM, should apply to Excel too.
http://techrepublic.com.com/5138-1009-5933819.html?tag=nl.e056

Erwin Craps - IT Helps wrote:

>I could make a call to the Internet Explorer from within Excel and let
>IE do a post...
>I'm using that in one of my apps (from Access), I'm not sure, but pretty
>sure the firewall will see IE as the app originator. Which is in this
>case always allowed.
>
>Most Companies dot not have a firwall on each pc...
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>Erwin
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>Aan: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>Onderwerp: Re: [dba-Tech] Securing Excel File to avoid E-mail forwards
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>On 20 Dec 2005 at 21:27, Erwin Craps - IT Helps wrote:
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>>I'm not that sure about that.
>>If it's a regular port 80 post it should work, when the user has 
>>internet access.
>>Wich I'm sure he has in this case.
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>Any decent personal firewall and many corporate one will block it
>because only certain applications are allowed access to certain ports
>and Excel is not usually used as an HTTP client.
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