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Microsoft Warns of PowerPoint Attack
narramissic writes to let us know about yet another PowerPoint flaw, this one affecting PowerPoint 2000, 2002, and 2003, soon after Microsoft issued a record number of patches to fix numerous Office vulnerabilities (among others). The new problem came to light in a blog posting by Microsoft Security Program Manager Alexandra Huft, but the coverage at ITWorld has more detail. Huft writes, "We've been made aware of proof of concept code published publicly affecting Microsoft Office 2003 PowerPoint," and goes on to say that Microsoft is not aware of any attacks that exploit the bug.
I don't use PowerPoint. When I go to a meeting, which is often, I immediately leave the room if someone decides to bore me with stupid phrases in 12-centimetre type. I am an intelligent man and I demand an intelligent medium by which to be educated.
That has got to be one of the funniest headlines I've seen in a LOOOONG time.
Stock up on milk and bread! Get out the hand-crank radio! The autoshapes are approaching fast! Run! For the love of God, RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I left my wallet in El Sigundo!
Well, if nothing else, college classes would get a little more interesting if the prefessor's slideshow suddenly turned into a stag reel...
There is no mod option "-1: Disagree" for a reason. "Overrated" is not an acceptable substitute. Post something instead.
It looks like you're trying to close Powerpoint. Would you like me to kill you now?
NOOOOO!!1
BANG! BANG! BANG!
It looks like you're dead. Would you like help in calling the mortician?
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Now I'm scared and it's not even Halloween yet!
I'm sure the I can speak for most of us when I say that we've already been experiencing power point attacks and they started right around the time our bosses took their first power point course and learned how to use^H^H^H abuse sound and animations.
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
PowerPoint is the preferred communication tool of the Idiocracy.
If knowledge of this vulnerability falls into the wrong hands (Kim Jong-Il, Fascist Moozlams, Treacherous Liberals, or the French) it could destroy Corporate America!
Fortunately, it can't destroy the White House. They draw all their ideas on big sheets of paper with crayons.
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
And this is, I think, the first PC virus to attach into Meat Space, as it were.
The way this works is that a compromised Powerpoint presentation is played to a room-full a victims. The speaker is first affected, speaking in a very monotone voice, rapidly clicking through the compromised slides of bullet-points and pie-charts. Within 10 minutes, all the victims are asleep.
I swear. I've seen this happen!! NO URBAN LEGEND! Check SNOPES!!!!!!
If Nalgene water bottles are outlawed, only outlaws will have Nalgene water bottles.
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OK, so everyone has alreay seen this...
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Your pitiful FlipChart-fu is no match for my mighty PowerPoint Attack!
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Microsoft Warns of PowerPoint Attack
We have these at work all the time. I call them "meetings"...
Is to buy a laser "pointer" from Wickedlasers.com and use it to try to burn a hole in anyone who attempts to present a powerpoint presentation to me. Note that this method can be defeated by painting your skin the same color as the laser, which is why it's important to have a couple of different colors on hand in case your presenter is a wiley one (I'm still working out what to do in the event of one wearing a mirrored fire suit...)
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?