[plug] Duck and cover, new MS-Office vulnerability

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Thu Sep 4 16:08:28 WST 2003


Perhaps that's why they cut the price of it recently? (-:

http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3383467

    The world's largest software maker said a "critical" flaw in
    its Visual Basic for Applications software, used to develop
    applications for Windows and Office, could enable a malicious
    programmer to create documents that would launch attacks on
    unsuspecting users.

Grammar question: is that the maker of the world's largest software, or 
the largest "maker" (IRL replicator) of software in the world?

Either way, you can offer OpenOffice.org as a replacement that doesn't 
need regular security fixes.

Cheers; Leon



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