Micrsoft to world: Don’t open any Word documents!
That's effing hilarious. I mean it.
It goes like this, Microsoft issued a security alert about Word documents. Just opening of them can carry a virus. Not running macroes, not doing anything else but opening up the document. So now they say don't even open Word documents from "trusted" sources. Wow.
"Eweek.com is reporting a new Microsoft Word zero-day attack underway. Microsoft issued a security advisory to acknowledge the unpatched flaw, which affects Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac and Microsoft Word 2004 v. X for Mac. The Microsoft Works 2004, 2005 and 2006 suites are also affected because they include Microsoft Word. Simply opening a word document will launch the exploit. There are no pre-patch workarounds or anti-virus signatures available. Microsoft suggests that users 'not open or save Word files,' even from trusted sources."
How neat of them. Good thing I barely use that software at all. I’ll probably post most of my new documents (if I’ll need any) to Writely and Google Spreadsheet.
analytik
9 Dec 06 at 4:50 am