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| From | Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.windows7.general, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.freeware, alt.comp.os.windows-8, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt, comp.programming |
| Subject | Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today |
| Date | 2017-04-11 10:06 +0200 |
| Organization | Khanya Publications |
| Message-ID | <453pecdcppaa3sgt7rpdtl8tb3vth6p07p@4ax.com> (permalink) |
| References | <ocgt83$853$1@dont-email.me> <oci1dd$me$3@dont-email.me> |
Cross-posted to 6 groups.
On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:45:43 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote: >On 11/04/2017 5:28 AM, T wrote: >> http://www.infoworld.com/article/3188626/security/word-zero-day-affects-all-versions-of-office-and-windows.html >> >> 1) Don't open any word doc's from unknown sources >> 2) use word's protected mode, whatever that is > >Why not just receive plain text files, no other formats? :) Yup. That's what I do. But one of the offenders in that respect are the people at BitDefender, who wanted me to register to continue using their antivirus program. But in order to register, I would have to disable the built-in virus protection on my mail reader. I thought that if they wanted me to do that, the couldn't know all that much about virus protection themselves. -- Steve Hayes http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm http://khanya.wordpress.com
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Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-04-11 15:45 +0800
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2017-04-11 10:06 +0200
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-04-11 19:14 +0800
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today Diesel <me@privacy.net> - 2017-04-13 01:29 +0000
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-04-17 02:45 +0800
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today jim.j.barlow@gmail.com - 2017-04-18 23:09 -0700
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-04-19 07:16 +0100
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-04-19 09:38 +0200
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today jim.j.barlow@gmail.com - 2017-04-28 20:34 -0700
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