MS Tool Targets Office 2003 Zero-Day Exploits
Microsoft plans to ship a file conversion tool to give Office 2003 users a chance to protect against exploits rigged into .doc, .xls, .ppt documents. The tool, called MOICE (Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment), is a direct response to the nonstop zero-day attacks that use rigged Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents to plant call-home Trojans on government and corporate networks.
Microsoft has already built new protection mechanisms into the Office 2007 software suite but customers running older versions of Office are at the highest risk. The statistics are telling: Since January 2006, Microsoft has shipped 20 bulletins covering code-execution holes in Office 2003. Over that same period, only 2 bulletins were shipped for Office 2007. Read More»
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