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Holes in PowerPoint and Excel

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everybody-point-and-laugh dept.

jeffy124 writes: "Looks like it's time for IIS and Outlook to make room on the pedestal of security holes. Just about every recent version of PowerPoint and Excel are vulnerable to being taken over to control the system remotely. The hole is a macro-related, as it's possible to bypass asking the user if they'd like a macro to run. Microsoft's advisory can be found here." Funny. I always thought that PowerPoint was already at least as destructive as macro viruses to corporate productivity. You ever watch a suit fiddle with his presentation?

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  1. Windows and Macintosh by dafoomie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Customers using Microsoft® Excel or PowerPoint for Windows® or Macintosh® I guess Mac uses can stop complaining that they don't get all the features of the Windows version.

  2. Productivity by Phroggy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always thought that PowerPoint was already at least as destructive as macro viruses to corporate productivity. You ever watch a suit fiddle with his presentation?

    How does that hurt productivity? You seem to be implying that the suit would be doing something productive if he weren't using PowerPoint.

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  3. Re:Macs too by Maserati · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lovely. When Mac users complain about feature parity with Office for Windows, this is not what we mean.

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  4. Re:One more hole by zerocool^ · · Score: 5, Funny

    One exploit to rule them all
    One hacker to find them
    One macro to bring them all
    And in the darkness bind them.
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