Two days ago, Symantec reported a possible new hole in Word. Yesterday, US-CERT issued a vulnerability note confirming the problem. Today, Computerworld ran an article "Beware Word docs: New bug crashes Windows XP, 2000" that confirms all the above. The hole causes Microsoft Explorer to crash making Windows unusable.
As always, think on a document attached to an email before you click on it. Otherwise, the document may have malware within it, causing you to lose identity authentication information such as your uid and passwords. Always beware of Office documents since for much of the time, there are often unpatched security holes.
Guy
www.authenticationworld.com
guy.huntington@authenticationworld.com
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