Internet Security and Programming

Microsoft has released its third service pack for Office 2003 users. The company says the 117-megabyte bundle of security updates and program tweaks “represents a major evolution in security for Office 2003″ and that it “further hardens the Office suite against potential attacks and other security threats.” Office 2003 users can download the update from this link. In addition to bundling a number of security fixes that have been previously released as separate Office 2003 updates, Service Pack 3 includes new security features, and it does away with several features that have opened avenues of attack or disclosed sensitive data. The service pack also includes stability updates, based on information gleaned from program crash dumps reported to Microsoft. Among the key new security features of SP3 is the addition of MOICE — also known as the Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment. This clumsy sounding component is probably the most [...]

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