RE: [NF] Word Zero-Day Exploit

Author: Hal Kaplan

Posted: 2006-12-07 at 12:14:22

=> Subject: RE: [NF] Word Zero-Day Exploit

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=> Hmm, the easiest way would be to not open attachments from

=> Robert McMillan!

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=> <BG>

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=> Tristan

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Hmmm. That would be the "Ostrich" gambol. Very effective as long as you stay under.

Seriously, this is scary because Word is the ubiquitous app. Everyone uses it and probably .01% of its users have any significant knowledge of it. As a result, almost anything can happen to their docs and they would not know about it.

We are trying to stop our users from sending out docs or spreadsheets and to send PDFs instead. The smart ones are catching on but many of the low-wattage folks don\'t understand and/or are too lazy to make the extra clicks.

Honestly, some selfish people are doing these nasty things and taking all the fun out of this business.

B+

HALinNY

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