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Another security hole found in Excel
Looks like Excel is trying to catch up with OpenOffice in security flaws wink

"In order for this attack to be carried out, a user must first open a malicious Excel document that is sent as an e-mail attachment or otherwise provided to them by an attacker," the spokesman said in an e-mail. "Opening the Excel document out of e-mail will prompt the user to be careful about opening the attachment."

So it has to be given to the user, and then they have to click ok past the warning then open it. Nope, this hole isn't going to go far. If history has shown anything, users read the warning then cancel out from opening it. Then they call the helpdesk and ask them if its ok.

The vulnerability affects only users of Japanese, Korean or Chinese language versions of Excel, the Microsoft spokesman said.

So again, no worries since it only affects a minority of people. And even then those people have to click past the warnings not to open it. All in all this shouldn't even be classified as a security hole since its extremely difficult to exploit.
Posted by: Loverock Davidson   Posted on: 07/06/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Another security hole found in Excel  Loverock Davidson | 07/06/06
You Are Worse Than A Cult Member  itanalyst | 07/07/06
He is the cult's grand-poobah!  Reverend MacFellow | 07/07/06
Did I read that right  xuniL_z | 07/07/06
Hes a Jackass, but hes correct this time  Cayble | 07/07/06
wha-wha-what?  Sxooter_z | 07/07/06
Sorry  swoopee | 07/07/06
You heard me  Loverock Davidson | 07/07/06
Explain  Dave P. | 07/07/06
my experience is they read them  corticus | 07/07/06
Lucky You  Dave P. | 07/07/06
Explain?  Loverock Davidson | 07/07/06
Loverock  Dave P. | 07/07/06
Your users?  DangDaCommonCentz | 07/10/06
Tell me  Dave P. | 07/07/06
tee hee hee  Loverock Davidson | 07/07/06
Trust me, I wasn't being funny  Dave P. | 07/07/06
I think you were  Loverock Davidson | 07/07/06
Then you'd be...  Dave P. | 07/07/06
Correction  Dave P. | 07/07/06
Correction to you correction  Loverock Davidson | 07/07/06
Correction to the corrected correction  Dave P. | 07/07/06
oh, you never did answer my question  Dave P. | 07/07/06
The fix for this problem however is due  gotitright | 07/09/06
Catching Up  Dave P. | 07/07/06
Starve the troll ^ (nt)  LoCal | 07/06/06
Did Microsoft write this themselves?  Scrat | 07/07/06
After the WGA snafu, I find that less and less difficult to believe.  MageOfChaos | 07/07/06
But what did the Japanese do?  Reverend MacFellow | 07/07/06
Sushi chef  swoopee | 07/07/06
The current version of Microsoft Office: Not safe at any speed.  DonnieBoy | 07/07/06
HAHAHAHAHA!  Confused by religion | 07/07/06
Because that's always worked in the past  Sxooter_z | 07/07/06
sorry  Sxooter_z | 07/07/06
Office is better because it HAS Access  corticus | 07/07/06
Your point?  Dave P. | 07/07/06
oooo!  Dave P. | 07/07/06
Open Office means Security Sieve Office?Read  Cayble | 07/09/06
Let's do some research...  gotitright | 07/09/06
User Interface  Dave P. | 07/07/06
Who copies whom?  Confused by religion | 07/07/06
Bzzt - wrong answer  Dave P. | 07/07/06
No offense, but you're an @$$.  MageOfChaos | 07/08/06
Gee, my head just exploded in sheer abject surprise.  HypnoToad72 | 07/08/06

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