Extremely critical vulnerability in Office
April 6th, 2009 by Andreas from Xavier Media® in Antivirus & Security. Topics: Bugs, MicrosoftSecurity companies have found a new and extremely critical vulnerability in Power Point in Microsofts Office suite. The vulnerability allows attackers to take control over the operating system and control computers remotely using special code inside a Power Point presentation. The security company Securia is ranking this as "extremely critical" and Microsoft is reporting that hackers have already been using this to take control over victims computers.
If you have any of the following you should be careful opening Power Point presentations: Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3 or Office 2004 for Mac. It's highly likely that this security hole will get widely spread since there's no bug fix for it yet, Easter is soon here with alot of funny Easter Power Point presentations sent between co-workers and friends, and this is not only affecting Windows but also Mac users should be careful this time.
Office 2007 is not affected luckily.
About the authorAndreas co-founded Xavier Media® in 1996 and has since been involved in all kinds of development, marketing and making money online.
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