RSSMS: PowerPoint Flaw Already Fixed
By Nate Mook | Published August 23, 2006, 6:00 PM
Microsoft is publicly downplaying the risk of an alleged zero-day exploit announced earlier this week for PowerPoint. Security officials from the Redmond company say the vulnerability the exploit affects was already patched.
"Our investigation has proven thus far that customers who are up to date with Office security updates are NOT affected. Meaning this is NOT a zero day. Malware in the malicious .ppt leverages a previously fixed vulnerability in Microsoft Office to drop the payload," said Scott from Microsoft's Security Response Center. "To be attacked and become infected requires a user to open the malicious .ppt file on a system that doesn’t have the latest Office security updates."
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So, BetaNew's sensationalism of this story was
what we suspected from the start: Non-news !
Which allows the question to remain... why does
BetaNews publish articles like this (and on
hybrid cars) while ignoring ~real~ computer news ?
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The DataRat
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Because they can and because they want to. Do they need more of a reason? It is their site, they can report on Pokemon and My Little Ponies if they want to.
Which begs the question, since it's their site, and you don't like the way it is run....
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Why are you still here?
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PC_Fool wrote:
"Because they can and
because they want to"
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Sounds like your attitude about Microsoft, too.
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The Computer Rodent
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And the "real computer news" they are ignoring is?
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Yeah.
I know...you have a problem with people doing what they want with their own products.
Which is fine, everyone is allowed an opinion, but you act as though yours is the only valid one.
The journalist, site, or CEO has a bit more say in what's done with their products than you do, I am afraid.
You'll either have to learn to deal with it (preferably without the constant b****ing), or perhaps you should look for your news and related material elsewhere.
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PC_Fool wrote:
"you have a problem
with people doing
what they want with
their own products"
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Not at all. But incompentence and arrogance
deserve comment whether it's Microsoft or
BetaNews.
Your 'Love-It-or-Leave-It' paradigm works for
neither consumers nor providers.
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The Computer Rodent
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Actually, it works wonders. Did ya know our market and economy are based on it?
See, ya learn something new every day.
Where've you been the past 100 years?
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