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Posted on 10/09/2007 7:59:50 PM PDT by Swordmaker
This update fixes a vulnerability in Word 2004 that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code. For more information about this update, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article (KB941809).
Applies to: Office 2004 Standard Edition, Office 2004 Student and Teacher Edition, Office 2004 Professional Edition, Word 2004.
Released: October 9, 2007
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Microsoft slowly infecting Mac?
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No … Microsoft product has a series of holes.
No MS products on my Mac’s.
Period.
the linux sabayon looks cool as an alternative to MS.
I’m one of those Luddites that’s still on Office.X.
I just had a technician order the one for students/teachers but haven’t had it installed yet and wonder, now, if it’s going to be worth the hassle. Any thoughts?
Most likely there will be no problems. Even this vulnerability is small potatoes on a Mac. Just make sure you are running in standard mode and not administrator and it really can't hurt the system files. Back up your home folder though.
I'm one of the Luddites also... running Office for Mac OSX... never updated to Office 2004... and I see no advantage to upgrading to Office 2008
Thank you!
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