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Swiss Cheese - Another high risk security hole appears in MS Office

On Friday, Microsoft confirmed yet another high risk security flaw in one of it's MS Office products, Excel. The hole allows malware to be deposited in the user's computer by merely opening the Excel file. The normal method is to attach this to an email requesting the user to open the file.

This brings to the total of five unpatched high criticality flaws in MS Word and Excel. Several of the Word flaws have been known since early December and as yet remain unpatched.

MS Office resembles Swiss Cheese with all of its security holes. Vista won't stop these types of attacks.

Caveat emptor. Think on it before you click on it for MS Office attachments in your email.

Guy
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guy.huntington@authenticationworld.com

Posted by Guy Huntington on February 5, 2007 9:43 AM |

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