Warning: Hackers Attacking Via PowerPoint

[exfileme]

Microsoft issued a security advisory yesterday saying that hackers are now attacking through an unpatched flaw in Microsoft Office PowerPoint.

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[jhansonxi]

All the way back to Office 2000? That's very good backwards compatibility.
Hopefully someday OpenOffice.org Impress will improve its PowerPoint compatibility so it can support the same exploits.

 

[Tindytim]

I don't remember the last time I opened an Office document from a source I didn't trust. This goes back to people opening suspicious attachments.

 

[Guest]

Microsoft Office 2007 is not affected

 

[richning28]

Even sources "whom you know" pass on stupid infected powerpoint files!

 

[richning28]

People whom you & I may trust pass on stupid infected files all the time

 

[Tindytim]

[citation][nom]richning28[/nom]Even sources "whom you know" pass on stupid infected powerpoint files![/citation]
I've reformatted 90% of the people's computers I'm in regular e-mail contact with. I wouldn't trust their attachments if I really cared, but I'm using Ubuntu Studio 70% of the time. And as far as Windows goes, I don't keep any important files on my Windows boot, and I use a slip streamed disc that configures and installs all my programs in about an hour. So I'm rather quick to reformat if I have any issues.

 

[timaahhh]

Well I use open office. And I don't recieve many word documents. Ever attachment I do download is scanend automagically by anti-virus and spyware (avast and adware).

 

[timaahhh]

edit every* attachment*

 

[Guest]

my uncle would ALWAYS send me forwards with a 'funny' powerpoint comic/video/some other excuse for it. I NEVER opened them, why? Cause I never trust powerpoint/word/excel/whatever unless I requested it from them.

 

[resonance451]

Don't even mention Conficker. That was blown up by the media out of nothing, and you don't need to inflate it by referring to it.

 

[fuser]

My thoughts exactly, resonance451. He must have meant the big Conficker non-event.

 

[grieve]

[citation][nom]fuser[/nom]My thoughts exactly, resonance451. He must have meant the big Conficker non-event.[/citation]
No doubt, I was excited to see a whole lot of people hooped by Conficker… but nothing, it was all hype.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]Tindytim[/nom]I don't remember the last time I opened an Office document from a source I didn't trust. This goes back to people opening suspicious attachments.[/citation]
Those people would be my mom! Guess I'm lucky she ain't got ms office