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Microsoft Word Security Flaw

Posted by timothy on Friday September 13, 2002 @05:17AM 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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SHIT!! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-13 05:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I was just getting ready to submit this!
Riiiight by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-13 05:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Because *MILLIONS* of users are still using Word 97.
fdfsfdsf by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-13 05:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Pfft. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-13 06:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Most /. readers are not Hackers. Just read some posts.