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Ian MacCosley View Drop Down
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    Posted: Apr/06/2009 at 3:18pm
Microsoft is warning of attacks on their presentation software application, PowerPoint. Just by opening PowerPoint, a user can infect his computers and possibly other connected computers.

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This is a horrible attack. Just about everyone uses PowerPoint for their presentations.
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Well on the bright side I see that Microsoft says:

"The vulnerability cannot be exploited automatically through e-mail. For an attack to be successful a user must open an attachment that is sent in an e-mail message"

So as always be careful what you open.
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It is typically good advise to never open any e-mail if you do not know who it is from, this is especially true for an unknown attachment.
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im sure if you just scan your attachments you should be safe
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