US East Time March 21 (Beijing time March 22) news, many anti-virus software companies said in recent days, Microsoft's latest Office 2003 beta is supported by the XML language format, and thus will bring all major anti-virus software companies. New puzzle.
According to relevant experts, the Microsoft Office 2003 beta brings new problems to anti-virus software companies, where the crux is the macro command embedded in the product. In the Office 2003 beta, when the file is saved as an XML format
The location where the macro command is changed, which means that anti-virus software must scan the entire document. Before this, anti-virus software will be scanned to the fixed position, because the location of the macro command is relatively fixed.
Although many anti-virus software companies put forward relatively simple solutions for this issue of Office 2003 beta, Microsoft has not made a corresponding response so far. A Microsoft spokesperson said that this problem is a universality issue related to XML documents, not just issues in Office 2003.
Many anti-virus software said that between the functionality and security of the product, Microsoft usually pays more attention to the functionality of the product, which undoubtedly bringing certain difficulties to the work of major anti-virus software companies. Because the entire document is to be scanned, the ability of anti-virus software will undoubtedly be further strengthened. And Office 2003 supports XML format documents, which means that all Office products in the future will have this feature, so anti-virus software has earlier to take out effective solutions.
