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<blockquote data-quote="shmu26" data-source="post: 729931" data-attributes="member: 37647">+1A different way to keep Office apps out of trouble (if you really need MS Office for professional reasons or whatever) is with the Excubits apps, Memprotect and Pumpernickel. I use the demo version of both.&nbsp; It takes some time and practice, because you need to write your own rules, but once you do, it is good protection.The protection will be more effective if you can concentrate the files you actively edit with Office apps into one or two folders, and store most of your docs somewhere else. This is so you can block write permissions to most of your docs, and only expose a small number of active docs to that particular risk.An easy tweak that goes a long way is to block outbound firewall connection for Word and Excel. NVT SysHardener makes that tweak for you by default, in Windows Firewall. If you use a 3rd party firewall, you will have to tweak it yourself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shmu26, post: 729931, member: 37647"] +1 A different way to keep Office apps out of trouble (if you really need MS Office for professional reasons or whatever) is with the Excubits apps, Memprotect and Pumpernickel. I use the demo version of both. It takes some time and practice, because you need to write your own rules, but once you do, it is good protection. The protection will be more effective if you can concentrate the files you actively edit with Office apps into one or two folders, and store most of your docs somewhere else. This is so you can block write permissions to most of your docs, and only expose a small number of active docs to that particular risk. An easy tweak that goes a long way is to block outbound firewall connection for Word and Excel. NVT SysHardener makes that tweak for you by default, in Windows Firewall. If you use a 3rd party firewall, you will have to tweak it yourself. [/QUOTE]

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