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Microsoft Word Is Under A Hack Attack!

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Microsoft Word Is Under A Hack Attack: Do Not Open Documents Named '.RTF'

 

 

 

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"Microsoft Corp. on Monday issued an emergency security warning saying that hackers have found a way to booby-trap certain common Word files with the .rtf extension....  This is the worst kind of attack. A hacker who manages to get you to open a booby-trapped file can gain control of your computer....Even scarier is that the hack could work in preview mode. That's where you don't actually open the file but view it in an email instead. Outlook, for instance, lets you preview attachments.

Microsoft is recommending that you block all .rtf documents from your computer. It released a free tool that will set that up for you"

 

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List of affected software: 

 

 
Microsoft Word 2003 Service Pack 3
Microsoft Word 2007 Service Pack 3
Microsoft Word 2010 Service Pack 1 (32-bit editions)
Microsoft Word 2010 Service Pack 2 (32-bit editions)
Microsoft Word 2010 Service Pack 1 (64-bit editions)
Microsoft Word 2010 Service Pack 2 (64-bit editions)
Microsoft Word 2013 (32-bit editions)
Microsoft Word 2013 (64-bit editions)
Microsoft Word 2013 RT
Microsoft Word Viewer
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack 3
Microsoft Office for Mac 2011
Word Automation Services on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Service Pack 1
Word Automation Services on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Service Pack 2
Word Automation Services on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
Microsoft Office Web Apps 2010 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Office Web Apps 2010 Service Pack 2
Microsoft Office Web Apps Server 2013
 
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Source:http://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-are-attacking-microsoft-word-2014-3

 

Link to Microsofts Security Advisory: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2953095

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Well.. S**t.. My CV is written in that format.. 

====>The car thread<====>Dark Souls thread<====>Placeholder<====
"Life is like a raging river, Its gonna get rough downstream. And people's gonna piss in it" 

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Well.. S**t.. My CV is written in that format..

Why not a PDF? O_o

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Oh, wow. That's kind of unexpected...

I like the color scheme of Noctua fans. Deal with it. Forget about the bad memories of the past.


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Why not a PDF? O_o

I wrote it in an afternoon as a rich text document... Couldn't be bothered to change it. 

====>The car thread<====>Dark Souls thread<====>Placeholder<====
"Life is like a raging river, Its gonna get rough downstream. And people's gonna piss in it" 

"Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he THINK he was doing at the time?"

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this is why you use LibreOffice kiddies..

 

What about those people or peoples domains that use MS Outlook. still effects them :(

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What about those people or peoples domains that use MS Outlook. still effects them :(

if you are just doing word documents, Why pay for an inferior product? ;)

and how would it affect their domains? If they don't click on the file, nothing should happen right?

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if you are just doing word documents, Why pay for an inferior product? ;)

and how would it affect their domains? If they don't click on the file, nothing should happen right?

 

Users will open emails and if the admin has not had a chance to implement some rules, Outlook will auto-preview the .rtf files and BAM!

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this is why you use LibreOffice kiddies..

Kingsoft office.

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Good thing I've been using Google Docs for everything!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just kidding I can't afford Microsoft Office. 

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this is why you use LibreOffice kiddies..

That last time I tried to get LibreOffice, their isn't an x64 version for Windows, WTF.

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open office ftw

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Does this mean that all my school computers have a chance of being hacked if I click ONE file and no one will know? Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe. *walks away maniacally*

u need to find the file tho

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I aint afraid of some hacker!

 

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Uh oh, I opened one on my uncle's pc (which im using now) yesterday...

I caught this too late, is there any solution?

not all .rtf's are boobytrapped, they just could be boobytrapped. Which means that you can usually trust older docs on your own pc and stuff your friends/collegues send you. But when some website sends you a .rtf don't even allow Outlook to preview.

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most of my work is on outlook and everyone is sending docs
damn
thanks op for posting this

Real programmers don't document, if it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
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Word crashed a couple of hours ago and the autosave wasn't working so I lost a fair bit of my assignment, I'm already mad at you Microsoft, fix your shit.

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Word crashed a couple of hours ago and the autosave wasn't working so I lost a fair bit of my assignment, I'm already mad at you Microsoft, fix your shit.

Was it saved on removable media like a pendrive? Its common for Word to crash when working on documents for a long time that are located on removable media. Always work local, then backup to external.

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Was it saved on removable media like a pendrive? Its common for Word to crash when working on documents for a long time that are located on removable media. Always work local, then backup to external.

 

Nope, all local. Not sure why but Word is just being a bit unstable. Typing it up on Google Docs so it's all saved as I type then I'll move it back to format because I like Word better for that.

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