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Don't know if this is accurate or not but I think it's worth checking out. NetsaversCenter wrote: > ================================================ > Netsavers Software Newsletter, Vol. 37s: 01/25/99 > ================================================ > > Special Edition > > by Craig Stevens, EE > http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Galaxy/2209/index.html > > ================================================ > > --------------- > Security Update > --------------- > > Gaping Security Hole In IE/Outlook And Office > By Peter Deegan > > If you have Office installed, and you use Internet Explorer to view an > infected Web page, that page -- without your knowledge, or any action on your part -- can wreak > havoc on your system. It can drop a virus, delete a folder, scramble data, send your tax files to > Timbuktu... anything. Similarly, if you use Outlook 98 or later to view an infected HTML message, > that message -- with no action on your part -- can do anything to your system. > > Anti-virus legend Dr. Vesselin Bontchev confirmed [this] report by showing me an HTML file that > exploits the security hole. It's... scary. It's way too easy to exploit, unlike some more obscure > security problems you don't have to be a 'rocket scientist' to spread trouble. For that reason, WOW > has decided to be quick about warning our readers to get the protective patch before examples of > this spread 'in the wild.' > > At Microsoft, a team has been working day and night for the last few days to find a fix. Microsoft will > be posting that fix in the next few hours. > > Let me make this really clear. Every single Office user who also uses Internet Explorer or Outlook 98 > or later, MUST INSTALL THIS PATCH. It's only a matter of time before some %$#@! cretin figures > out how to exploit this hole. You -- and everyone you know -- needs protection NOW. > > There's actually TWO security patches out today. We're particularly concerned with the Word 97 > Template patch, but you should get the Forms 2.0 patch as well. More info on both problems below. > > Word 97 Template Security Patch: > > http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/ms99-002.asp > Microsoft Security Bulletin > > http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/downloaddetails/wd97sp.htm > Office Update Download Page > > Forms 2.0 Security Patch:<br> > http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/downloaddetails/fm2paste.htm > Office Update Download Page > > http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/ms99-001.asp > Microsoft Security Bulletin > > Please. Take a few seconds to forward this article to everyone you know who doesn't subscribe to > WOW. Urge them in no uncertain terms to get the patches, and apply them immediately. > > All I ask is that you keep this article intact -- don't change it -- and that you send it in its entirety. If > there are any updates, we'll post them to href="http://www.wopr.com/ immediately. > > And thanks to WOWser DavidF. 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