Holes in PowerPoint and Excel

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday October 7, 2001 @08:16AM 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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Slashdot = Bin Laden for Geek's by WildBeast · 2001-10-07 09:39 · Score: 0, Troll

Really I mean, Bin Laden is jealous of the U.S. because it's a successfull and powerfull country that made a few mistakes (which he keeps on talking about) yet doesn't do much to help his people. Same goes for Slashdot, they're afraid of MS because it's a successfull and powerfull company who happened to make a few mistakes (they keep on talking about them) and do very little in order to help with Linux issues. If you look closely you'll see that very few of their articles talk about Linux.