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MS Office Zero-Day Under Attack
paulBarbs writes "Microsoft is warning users to be on the lookout for suspicious Excel files that arrive unexpectedly — even if they come from a co-worker's e-mail address. In an advisory, Microsoft confirmed a new wave of limited "zero-day" attacks was underway, using a code execution flaw in its Microsoft Office desktop productivity suite. Although .xls files are currently being used to launch the spear phishing attacks, Microsoft said users of other Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, etc.) are potentially at risk."
Here is what I propose, a week of customers, consumers and users NOT fixing any MS code or intentionally avoiding any potential exploit in MS code. Let it all crash for a week and then go back to MS and suggest they work a little harder on security and a little less on marketing Vista.
Nothing will ever get fixed until MS owns the problem.
I've gone back and forth over the past twenty years from Mac to Windows 3.11 to System 7 back to Windows 95 for a little while and then jumped aboard the Mac train again for MacOS 9 and the start of the era of X. The bullshit that Gates and co put their customers through is incredible. Windows Whatever is a shockingly clunky, brain-dead piece of software. The current Mac OSX just works - end of story. I'm sick to death of Gates and the MS arrogance that has driven down the quality of software for everyone and wasted precious mindshare on really shitty products. Where's the genuine innovation at MS? These guys deserve to be bankrupted and put into thinking jail. Disgusting.
You must be so popular...
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