How Do You Handle New MS Word Vulnerabilities?

chipperdog asks: "With yet another zero-day exploit of MS-Word document files, what are fellow system admins doing to protect themselves against these threats? I have been blocking all .doc and .dot at the mail and proxy servers until malware scanners have signatures to detect and block the malicious files. Of course, this caused a uproar with the users, as there were continuous calls like: 'When can I send and receive Word files again' and 'I can't get anything done if I can't send/receive Word files'. Any suggestion of sending documents in different formats (like rtf, html, txt, or pdf) results in even more creative user 'feedback'. Has anyone done anything creative in their handling of word files — like having qmail-scanner pipe all .doc attachments through something such as wv to convert them to a less exploitable format?"

Comments

Easily

[dangitman]

It's a simple process:

• Buy a fat cigar and smoke it
• Hire a hooker
• Snort cocaine off her ass
• Play a game of blackjack with her
• Take some horse tranquilizers
• Sit in the corner crying at how futile life is
• Try to ignore the insects crawling under my skin