Third Microsoft Word Code Execution Exploit Posted

gregleimbeck writes "Exploit code for a third, unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Word has been posted on the Internet, adding to the software maker's struggles to keep up with gaping holes in its popular word processing program. The attack code, available at Milw0rm.com, contains sample Word documents that have been rigged to launch code execution exploits when the file is opened."

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Re:Not only that...

[IronTeardrop]

But in my case, my dad found OpenOffice to be just ugly! "The icons are too big," he complained. Even after making them "smaller" the whole interface remained "ugly."

Your Dad needs to choose between paying for MS Office and all that comes with it or accepting the free OpenOffice without impotent complaints about its "ugliness". Either shut up and enjoy the free software or contribute to the Open Source community by pointing out exactly what needs to be improved. Try writing some help documentation.

The Gnome or GTK file dialog did not help matters at all. He found that he could not paste an HTTP link into this file dialog to have OpenOffice open the referenced file. In other words a file to be opened MUST exist on the local or mounted file system.

So your Dad makes extensive use of opening URLs on foreign systems instead of local files? 1) can this even be done with MS Office's File Open dialog, and 2) who does this?

Its help system seemed incomplete!

Then help to complete it!

There did not exist a credible alternative to Microsoft Access. The integrated database application is not friendly at all and leaves a lot to be desired.

MS Access isn't included in MS Office Standard anyway. If your Dad is such a database maven, look into other tools. Just out of interest, did your Dad pay for MS Office Professional in the first place?

Your {Dad's} complaints ring hollow.