On 2006-06-21, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted something concerning:
> Second zero-day Excel flaw emerges
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>| Attack code for a new security hole in Excel has surfaced on the
>| Internet, just as Microsoft is scrambling to respond to a separate
>| bug in the spreadsheet program.
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> http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-6085982.html?part=rss&tag=6085982&subj=news
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> Microsoft recommended that Excel gets uninstalled immediately, to be replaced
> by Open Source alternatives. Well, not really...
They aren't that smart.
I remember them getting hit internally by one of the nastier worms
(Slammer?). That's when the world discovered (officially) they don't
eat their own dogfood, and they aren't any wiser than Grams when it
comes to security.
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Excuse my english. I went to US public school.
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