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Zero-day attack hits Word

I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice that these hackers have pretty much stopped trying to exploit Windows since Microsoft locked it down and got it secure. Now for the funny part:

As with most of the Office vulnerabilities, an attacker would have to trick a user into opening a malicious file to be successful. The vulnerability is being exploited in "very limited, targeted attacks," Microsoft said. A security update to repair the problem is in the works, it added.

It doesn't affect office 2003 or 2007,and the user needs to be tricked into running it. What was the point of this again if its not going to run at all? Those hackers are not very bright. So the user has to get a corrupted document first, then double click to open it, then click on the big warning that comes up saying it may be dangerous, then run it. The only way this is going to harm anyone is if they deliberately wanted to be exploited.

Posted by: Loverock Davidson   Posted on: 02/15/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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