[ILUG] [Fwd: Sun StarOffice documents that "phone home" and other interestingproblems]

[Justin Mason]

Kenn Humborg said:

> o  So how the fsck is the mail message data ending up in the 
>    Excel process?  Does OLE32.dll use some undocumented memory
>    allocation kernel API that doesn't clear memory?  Eek!

if I recall correctly, DLLs on Windows have their own memory allocation
pools. So if OLE32.dll deals with a DLL call from (let's say) Outlook,
followed by one from Excel, could conceivably wind up with bits of mail
in the middle of an Excel block of data.

I think ;)

--j.