Begin forwarded message:
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: December 6, 2006 9:36:44 PM EST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Ed Gerck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [IP] No Word for you today
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:22:26 -0500
David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Microsoft suggests that users 'not open or save Word files,' even
from trusted sources."
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/06/0230209&from=rss
www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/929433.mspx
There's an important missing word from that quote: "unexpected". The
actual advice from Microsoft is "Do not open or save Word files that
you receive from un-trusted or that are received unexpected from
trusted sources." which is perfectly reasonable when there's a 0-day in
the wild. It says nothing about normal sharing of documents when you
don't suspect it was sent by a worm.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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