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Re: [Rival] Use Microsoft Excel, Get Owned

____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Thursday 17 January 2008 15:32 : \____

> On Jan 16, 6:40 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> New Excel vulnerability being exploited
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Affected versions of the software are Excel 2003 SP2, Excel Viewer 2003,
>> | Excel 2002, Excel 2000, and Excel 2004 for Mac. Microsoft especially warns
>> | that there are no known workarounds for the issue for Excel 2000 or 2002.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16136/1054/
> 
> The workaround is to "upgrade" to Vista.  That will solve all your
> problems.

Or OOXML, if Groklaw is anything to go by. Remember that "for security reasons"
which Microsoft quickly retracted (it called it an "accident", a mistake) just
2 weeks ago? Forced upgrade are a black art.

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