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Zero-Day Excel Exploit In the Wild

Posted by kdawson on from the be-careful-out-there dept.

snydeq writes "Microsoft Excel has a zero-day vulnerability that attackers are exploiting on the Internet, according to security vendor Symantec. The problem affects Excel 2007 both without and with Service Pack 1, according to an advisory on SecurityFocus, and other versions going back to Excel 2000. The program's vulnerability can be exploited if a user opens a maliciously crafted Excel file, allowing a hacker to leave a Trojan horse on the infected system."

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  1. Simple Answer for Microsoft... by BoRegardless · · Score: 0, Troll

    License Apple's OSX and layoff 30,000 people and just color the startup screen Vista Blue with the appropriate logo.

    Then Microsoft will have to get busy making actual applications that WORK, consistently, easily & productively, on the NIXs & OSX.

    I am a dreamer.

  2. Use windows - get shafted by 1s44c · · Score: -1, Troll

    Use windows and get shafted.

    It's business as usual.

  3. Re:MS Vista becoming more secure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes

    Look, Vista is not affected by this bug... read that report!

    Personally, we have just under 200 machines here and I do not have anti virus on a single one (our gateway does virus scanning on everything first)... I use group policy and set UAC toblock pretty much everything and we have not had a single problem since we deployed vista when it first came out.

    People can laugh, People can say what they like, but I am a very happy system admin, and Vista has made my job so much easier.