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

My software firewall will catch it.  I was not talking about a hardware
firewall.  I guess I should have been more specific.

Each time an application tries to access the internet, Sygate Personal
Firewall Pro asks for permission to let that app have access.  I can have it
remember my answer and it will allow/disallow based upon that.

So in the case here, if I have not let Excel access the internet, then it
will ask me.

I guess my comment is hit or miss depending on the user's setup.  I was just
saying that this is one more reason that 'phone home' may not work as
described.

Bobby

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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.

Erwin
 

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] Namens Bobby Heid
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As for the "phone home" part, all it takes is telling a firewall not to
allow it and there goes that part.

Bobby

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I wonder if I put some code in an excel file to do a HTTP post in the
background, if it would run on most computers? I could do this at random
on specific days with specific users.
I know that this is a privacy issue (rembember Belgium has the most
strict Privacy Law in the world), but all parties agreed to receive and
keep this data confidential, so probably there will be no complaints
:-).