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Subject: Re: PSA: Windows users, patch your systems NOW


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LrdDimwit
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Date Posted: 13:42:43 09/04/03 Thu
In reply to: Dena 's message, "Re: PSA: Windows users, patch your systems NOW" on 10:39:52 09/04/03 Thu

>Oh -- and if you have any Office products (Word,
>Excel, etc), while you're at Windows Update, make sure
>you click over to the Office Update tab and have your
>original install discs handy. There's a big slew of
>"you can take over somebody's entire system with
>gaping holes left in MS Word et al" patches today
>too...

In case anyone here is wondering why Word has security flaws of this type...

Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to have a macro language, to automate tasks like formatting documents.

Neat idea, except they went and embedded an entire, totally unrestricted, version of Visual Basic -- a full programming language in its own right capable of invoking ANY windows operation.

I don't know about you, but I don't often use Word to defragment my hard drive, or change the registry, and I certainly don't use Word to do 3D rendering (DirectX).

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