Comments on: Microsoft Word Vulnerability Exploit Through Jet Database: Word Up on Security Hole http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/microsoft-word-vulnerability-exploit-through-jet-database-word-up-on-security-hole/ Internet Safety, Windows Updates, Internet News, and More Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:15:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Grumpy Old Man http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/microsoft-word-vulnerability-exploit-through-jet-database-word-up-on-security-hole/#comment-410261 Grumpy Old Man Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:19:57 +0000 http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/microsoft-word-vulnerability-exploit-through-jet-database-word-up-on-security-hole#comment-410261 To Sally: Do your students need to send you doc files from Word? If they don't, ask for PDF files, which though not immune to compromise seem to have escaped many of them, at least until now. If they've got to send you Word files, accept and view only single Word files. This particular security alert relates to the combination of a Word file and another (which may or may not have the mdb extension). If you're on XP/2k, and your version of Msjet40.dll is lower than 4.0.9505.0, you're vulnerable. Suggestion: McAfee DAT files version 5256 (released March 20) detect all known Access exploits as Exploit-MSJet. If you don't use McAfee, check with your anti-virus provider. To Sally:

Do your students need to send you doc files from Word? If they don’t, ask for PDF files, which though not immune to compromise seem to have escaped many of them, at least until now.

If they’ve got to send you Word files, accept and view only single Word files. This particular security alert relates to the combination of a Word file and another (which may or may not have the mdb extension).

If you’re on XP/2k, and your version of Msjet40.dll is lower than 4.0.9505.0, you’re vulnerable.

Suggestion: McAfee DAT files version 5256 (released March 20) detect all known Access exploits as Exploit-MSJet. If you don’t use McAfee, check with your anti-virus provider.

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]]> By: Sally http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/microsoft-word-vulnerability-exploit-through-jet-database-word-up-on-security-hole/#comment-409832 Sally Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:19:05 +0000 http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/microsoft-word-vulnerability-exploit-through-jet-database-word-up-on-security-hole#comment-409832 I teach a weekend class. My students (some of whom are newbies) send me attachments. What am I supposed to do now? If their machines are infected, most would not know. I teach a weekend class. My students (some of whom are newbies) send me attachments. What am I supposed to do now? If their machines are infected, most would not know.

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