Re: Microsoft Office Problem

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Jim - Thanks for the thoughts

Kerry -- Thank You! You have really helped me out and I really appreciate
it. You also increased my knowledge on the subject. Bluebird

"Kerry Brown" wrote:

Jim wrote:
If the person in question is running firewall/antivirus as they should
be, then updates for office become a non-issue. :)

That is so wrong it isn't funny. It is very bad advice. A lot of the
security updates are about opening files with malicious intent. A firewall
and antivirus will do nothing to stop a buffer overflow unless it is a known
signature to the antivirus. It is a much better solution to fix the buffer
oveflow and be protected against unkown exploits as well. There are always
new methods of using old exploits being tried. many of them will not be
caught by an antivrus but will be stopped did if Office has been patched.

--
Kerry



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