Warning about new security features for Microsoft Office
Office Watch, which keeps a beady eye on Microsoft Office, is warning about some new security stuff for Office 2003 and 2007:
Microsoft has announced two ‘new’ security features for Office 2007 and Office 2003 users. They are claimed to help protect against ‘zero-day’ exploits in Office documents - in other words new security holes that Microsoft has not had a chance to patch.
As usual, Office Watch isn’t content just to reprint Microsoft’s announcement. We prefer to check out the items for ourselves so we can tell our readers what Microsoft has done, as opposed to what they say.
In this case there’s a whole can of worms behind Microsoft’s latest “good news”. The web pages on these two new features are confusing and contradictory - even allowing for these patches being aimed at advanced users - it’s a mess.
The article concludes:
The bottom line, for the moment, is this:
Don’t touch either offering with a proverbial barge pole.
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