Whats the problem with Microsoft Word?
In the last two months of 2006 alone, at least four major security flaws involving Microsoft Word were revealed. All are “zero day” flaws , meaning Microsoft and security organizations became aware of them at the same time that destructive hackers became aware of them. In many “zero day” cases, it’s the exploitation of the flaw that brings it to the attention of the software companies; in other cases, the software companies announce the flaw and hackers immediately take advantage of it before a patch can be released. The strange thing about these Word problems is that almost eight weeks after the flaws were exploited by attackers, Microsoft still hadn’t released a patch to fix it. The first in this string of security holes popped up in early December 2006. This flaw affects computers running Word 2000, 2002 and 2003; Word 2004 for Mac and Word 2004 version X for Mac; Word Viewer 2003; and Microsoft Works 2004, 2005 and 2006. An attacker hides a piece of code in a Word document and puts
