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Asked: 2026-05-11T22:28:22+00:00

I’m working out the reasonability of a request to keep all documents with executable

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I’m working out the reasonability of a request to keep all documents with executable code of a document management system. This is above and beyond the existing protections restricting the file extensions to a short list and running the file by norton antivirus before we save it.

So far .doc(x), .xls(x), and .htm are all common document types that I can’t demand people to stop using and that can have executable code in them.

Does the technology exist to check common document types for the existance of executable code?

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    Note that security vulnerabilities in the viewer client program, such as buffer-overflow vulnerabilities can by abused to cause executable code in a fileformat that does not normally have such a feature.

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