New Excel vulnerability being exploited
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| 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.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16136/1054/
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UK children's charity says goodbye to Excel
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| Cognos TM1 will house the charity's budgeting and financial planning data
| currently held on 2,000 Excel spreadsheets.
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http://www.computerbusinessreview.com/article_news.asp?guid=98CC4FA6-BE3D-487F-B5C2-CAAE1489A516
Microsoft: Excel Bug Doesn't Add Up
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| If you've been depending on your Microsoft Excel software to do your number
| crunching for you, you might want to grab a calculator and review your
| spreadsheets before you send the document out the door. That's because the
| latest version of Excel is housing bugs that are dead set on ruining your
| reports.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070927/tc_nf/55613
Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution
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| Microsoft is investigating new public reports of very limited
| Microsoft Excel "zero-day" attacks using a vulnerability in
| Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office
| 2003, and Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/932553.mspx
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