Another security flaw.

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 02:09:03PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> We all know Microsoft Office files are security hells. Here's more
> affirmation:
> http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/09/13/microsoft.word.bug.ap/index.html
> 
> How it works, according to the article:
> " The attacker sends the victim a bugged document, [...]
> 
> BTW: Open Office 1.0.1 is an excellent free alternative to Microsoft 
> Office. (http://www.openoffice.org). OpenOffice 1.0 is essentially the open 
> source version of Sun's Star Office 6.0.  

When I looked, it appeared that Open Office has provisions for macros
that execute upon opening documents, and I found no way to turn that
feature off.  I could be wrong, but do we know that Open Office is any
more secure than Microsoft Office?


-kb, the Kent who figures Open Office will get fixed faster when bugs
are discovered.