Comments on: Listening for the word http://www.statusq.org/archives/2012/10/10/4542/ Quentin Stafford-Fraser's blog Wed, 22 May 2013 15:27:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: qsf http://www.statusq.org/archives/2012/10/10/4542/comment-page-1/#comment-127064 qsf Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:46:14 +0000 http://www.statusq.org/?p=4542#comment-127064 Ah, interesting. Presumably, then, the firewall is a good piracy-enabling scheme!

Fortunately, one running copy of any Office app at a time is quite enough for me!

]]> By: John http://www.statusq.org/archives/2012/10/10/4542/comment-page-1/#comment-127059 John Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:43:24 +0000 http://www.statusq.org/?p=4542#comment-127059 It’s attempting to communicate with other machines on your network that are running Word to see if the same license key is being used more than once. If it finds one it will not run.

]]> By: qsf http://www.statusq.org/archives/2012/10/10/4542/comment-page-1/#comment-126933 qsf Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:45:41 +0000 http://www.statusq.org/?p=4542#comment-126933 No, I don’t think so, but even if it had, that would be an outgoing connection…

]]> By: NotACat http://www.statusq.org/archives/2012/10/10/4542/comment-page-1/#comment-126918 NotACat Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:01:14 +0000 http://www.statusq.org/?p=4542#comment-126918 I think Dave has a point.

Does the lawyer’s document contain any images? Is it possible that Word is trying to fetch a logo from somewhere? I get this quite often with emails :-(

]]> By: Dave Hodgkinson http://www.statusq.org/archives/2012/10/10/4542/comment-page-1/#comment-126916 Dave Hodgkinson Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:47:59 +0000 http://www.statusq.org/?p=4542#comment-126916 I smell a remnant of DDE. Remember that?

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