Microsoft Issues Zero-Day Attack Alert For Word

0xbl00d writes "Eweek.com is reporting a new Microsoft Word zero-day attack underway. Microsoft issued a security advisory to acknowledge the unpatched flaw, which affects Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac and Microsoft Word 2004 v. X for Mac. The Microsoft Works 2004, 2005 and 2006 suites are also affected because they include Microsoft Word. Simply opening a word document will launch the exploit. There are no pre-patch workarounds or anti-virus signatures available. Microsoft suggests that users 'not open or save Word files,' even from trusted sources."

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Re:let me be the first to say

[Anonymous Coward]

mod me troll

Hold on here! Doesn't the moderator know the rules here? If you say "mod me troll", it means that you aren't allowed to moderate the post as "troll." The cute kicking your toe in the dirt and admitting you aren't good enough is supposed to endear the poster to the harshest of moderators.

Mod me off topic.

Re:This aughta make FINALS more interesting...

[alshithead]

You fail! "aughta"? How about "oughta"? Or even better..."ought to".

Re:Microsoft Recommends..

[eggegick]

I've never worked anywhere, large company or small, where the systems were not set up with admin accounts.

Re:Mature

[Anonymous Coward]

I apologize, I meant to moderate this up but I mis-clicked the mouse.

Go ahead Punk ...Do you feel lucky?

[Anonymous Coward]

mod parent as excessively redundant

Re:Looks like a long work day tomorrow

[illuminatedwax]

PowerPoint is the world's best teleprompter.

Slide 1

• Four score and seven years ago
• Our fathers brought forth on this continent
  • A new nation
  • Conceived in Liberty
  • And dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Slide 2

• Now we are engaged in a great civil war
• Testing whether that nation can long endure.
  • Or any nation so conceived and so dedicated
• We are met on a great battle-field of that war
• We have come to dedicate a portion of that field
• A final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live
• Altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

Slide 3

• In a larger sense
  • We can not dedicate this ground
  • We can not consecrate this ground
  • We can not hallow this ground
• The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract
• The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here
• But it can never forget what they did here
• It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced

Slide 4

• It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us
  • From these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion
  • We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain
  • That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom
  • And that government
    • of the people
    • by the people
    • for the people
  • Shall not perish from the earth

Re:let me be the first to say

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll take a +1 insightful please.

Mac exploit?

[Danathar]

How does this affect the Mac?

Re:Social Security - it's better than Social Darwi

[wolrahnaes]

After all, all Social Security does is ensures that even those of us who don't have children or rich friends won't starve when we become too old or sick to work.

That's what a retirement fund is for.

What's that? You didn't think to start one?

Sucks to be you, the world's not fair.

Re:Social Security - it's better than Social Darwi

[ultranova]

Sucks to be you, the world's not fair.

Then what are you complaining about ?

And the world would be a lot less unfair if people stopped using the perceived unfairness as an excuse to behave in ways that make it even more unfair.