Re: IE lets bad web sites attack your computer

["A.J. Maas" <anthmaas@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's can be effecting Excel 2000, PP2000, PP'97 and IE4-IE5.01 users.

It is not effecting the general Office '97 / 00 and IE5.5 and 5.01+SP1 users.

Regards,
Ton Maas
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Jurik" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'MetaStock List'" <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "'Omega List'" <Omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: donderdag 20 juli 2000 0:51
Subject: IE lets bad web sites attack your computer


> Regarding: Microsoft Office 2000, PowerPoint 97/2000 and IE 4.01 SP2 and higher.
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> Even though you may have instructed IE to not run Java and ActiveX, a vulnerability in IE allows a malicious script located on a
web page to open Microsoft Office files that may include malicious VBA macro code. This is a security bug.
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> Users running Office 2000 can download a patch from http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/downloaddetails/Addinsec.htm
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> Users running Powerpoint 97 can download a patch from
> http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/downloaddetails/PPt97sec.htm
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> - Mark Jurik
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