I don't know any writers who use M$ Word. I don't doubt they're out there, and statistically it'd make sense for the majority of writers to use Word, but somehow I just haven't met any.
I use Scrivener myself, and Pages or TeX for typesetting and formatting. Most writers I know are on Macs and abhor M$ Word, or use LaTeX or something else on Windows. Office is just too unstable.
I know this highlights me as rather dense/dumb, but can anyone tell me what exactly it is this exploit does?
Someone exploits this vulnerability... then what? Anything they want? Plant a keylogger? Take control of my mouse/keyboard? Crash my computer?
And is there any way to find out if you have already been affected?
I appreciate this all on a technical level, but as a user, I'm not entirely sure what it all means.
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I don't know any writers who use M$ Word. I don't doubt they're out there, and statistically it'd make sense for the majority of writers to use Word, but somehow I just haven't met any.
I use Scrivener myself, and Pages or TeX for typesetting and formatting. Most writers I know are on Macs and abhor M$ Word, or use LaTeX or something else on Windows. Office is just too unstable.
I know this highlights me as rather dense/dumb, but can anyone tell me what exactly it is this exploit does? Someone exploits this vulnerability... then what? Anything they want? Plant a keylogger? Take control of my mouse/keyboard? Crash my computer? And is there any way to find out if you have already been affected? I appreciate this all on a technical level, but as a user, I'm not entirely sure what it all means.