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On Friday 08 December 2006 09:56, Sean O'Malley wrote: > On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Richard Wiggins wrote: > > The advice from Microsoft is not to open Word documents from anyone, > > even trusted senders. Only open Word documents you are expecting from > > trusted senders. This is another reason why people should use PDF for > > formatted announcements, and only send Word documents if they intend > > for the recipient to edit them. > > Does this affect people using OpenOffice or StarOffice to open up the > infected Word documents? It's very doubtful that this exploit will effect any other word compatible programs. Exploits are very specific, in that they do just the right thing to cause a buffer overflow, etc. Open/star office, while having the same abilities as Word are a completely different implementation, and thus their own exploits. ;-) --STeve Andre'