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Microsoft Word Security Flaw

Posted by timothy on from the remember-word-viruses-fondly dept.

JWL-23 writes: "cnn.com is reporting that a Microsoft Word flaw may allow file theft. Furthermore, they plan on not fixing Word 97, leaving millions of users out in the cold. Yet another reason to try OpenOffice.org." It still takes more than running Word to expose the contents of your hard drive though.

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  1. Faith in Microsoft? by soboroff · · Score: 4, Funny

    I loved this one:

    "It's incredible to me that Microsoft would turn its back on Word 97 users," said Woody Leonhard, who has written books on Microsoft's Word and Office software. "They bought the package with full faith in Microsoft and its ability to protect them from this kind of exploit."


    To paraphrase Douglas Adams, "Bill says, 'I refuse to fix bugs, for patches deny faith, and without faith I am nothing.' "

  2. Re:Bad Developer, BAD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    >>product that has been bug-free from initial release

    Citronella candles?

  3. Intruders by Tablizer · · Score: 4, Funny


    This horrible bug could even allow invaders to install malicious or undesirable software such as MS-Word 97.

    Oh, wait

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