Oh, my Word!!
May. 19th, 2006 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lordshipmayhemAnd there's yet another zero-day exploit for Redmond's Superior System.
This time, they're using e-mails with Word attachments (.doc file extension).
Is there a patch for it? As more than one Slashdot wag has put it, yes, here.
Aside from gaming (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sandwichboy, I said ASIDE FROM GAMING), why do people insist on sticking to MS's offerings? I've been getting spammed right now at least once a day, each from a different computer, with someone's stock adverts attached to a message carefully disguised as a bunch of nonsense words strung together to almost make some sort of demented sense. They look like they're coming from zombie computers, because one will be plain text including the attempted attachment, the next will be some sort of Rich Text and include the stock advert as an attachment, one today arrived as an HTML document, which Kontact renders in the original code. (To see the mass of code as a webpage and risk infestation of your own computer "Click here if you trust the recipient", which I fscking well do not. DELETE!!) And I'll bet every one of those zombies are running some version or other of Microsoft Windows, and their owners do not even know their computers are p0wned.
This time, they're using e-mails with Word attachments (.doc file extension).
Is there a patch for it? As more than one Slashdot wag has put it, yes, here.
Aside from gaming (
sandwichboy, I said ASIDE FROM GAMING), why do people insist on sticking to MS's offerings? I've been getting spammed right now at least once a day, each from a different computer, with someone's stock adverts attached to a message carefully disguised as a bunch of nonsense words strung together to almost make some sort of demented sense. They look like they're coming from zombie computers, because one will be plain text including the attempted attachment, the next will be some sort of Rich Text and include the stock advert as an attachment, one today arrived as an HTML document, which Kontact renders in the original code. (To see the mass of code as a webpage and risk infestation of your own computer "Click here if you trust the recipient", which I fscking well do not. DELETE!!) And I'll bet every one of those zombies are running some version or other of Microsoft Windows, and their owners do not even know their computers are p0wned.