At 08:28 AM 9/6/2006 -0500, Stephen the Cook wrote:
Ted Roche <> wrote:
> eWEEK.com Messaging and Collaboration is reporting "Microsoft
> Confirms New Word Zero-Day Attack."
>
> "Malicious attackers are exploiting a new, undocumented flaw in Word
> 2000 to load back-door Trojans on Windows machines." ... "Security
...
Zero-day exploit on a software program that is 6 years old? Hmm... I guess
I haven't paid enough attention to realize what 'zero-day' means.
Thanks for the heads up. I guess that upgrade along the way will protect
most of the Word users out there because this is limited to Word 2000.
Whew! Boy I'm VERY glad I never upgraded past Office 97. Actually, I'm
VERY, VERY glad that I've upgraded to OpenOffice.
:-)
-Charlie
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