Office 2003 update blocks older file formats

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Well, how about that!

Microsoft agrees with me!!!

http://blogs.msdn.com/david_leblanc/

"# We did a poor job of describing the default format changes. There is a KB article for it here - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938810. In the KB article we stated that it was the file formats that were insecure, but this is actually not correct. A file format (with some exceptions, like .hlp files) isn't insecure ? it's the code that reads the format that's more or less secure. The parsers we use for these older formats aren't as robust as the code we've written more recently, which is part of our decision to disable them by default. But again, it isn't the format that's the problem, nor is it the app that wrote the format ? it's the app that reads the format. We just revised the KB article to correct this error.
# Some of the formats blocked are from products built by companies other than Microsoft, and we apologize for implying that there were any problems in those companies file formats.


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