Odd Situation Question

[Vincentaran]

Hello, I have an odd situation.

We have a computer here at work that we use for our design and conversion
software for our lasers. It's quite powerful, quad core blah blah blah.

We've been using 2003 Office suite for several years, and my boss recently
bought 07' office for this machine, since it's the only one running Vista in
our plant.

We however, do not hook that computer to the internet. Period. My boss is
(overly so) paranoid that if that computer got on the internet, someone could
hack in and steal our design files.

That being said, it cant go on the internet.

My question is this:
In Access 2007, there are Pre-made databases (Featured Online Databases).

How do I get those database files? I cant log the computer with 2007 onto
the internet, but we have other computers that are online.

Is there a way to just download that file? Or if I installed the free trial
of office, could I download those files and transfer them?

Any advice would be great!

~Chris

 

[KARL DEWEY]

You can download to a CD that will make a Read-Only copy. You have to change
the file attribute after copying to the off-line machine.

WARNING -- WARNING -- WARNING
You can get the same viruses this way as you can directly on-line.
You must trust the source. If you down loaded from a site I might have
you do not know what you might get. Even with what you think is a trusted
source you need to let your IT security people scan the CD before loading it
on that machine.

Your 'paranoid boss' is correct.

 

[Fred]

Your boss may be smarter than you think.

By most standards what Microsoft and opther software vendors do to / with
your computer IS malware, and that would keep them out.