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Microsoft Office patched to 11.3.8

by Michael Rose Oct 11th 2007 at 8:00PM

Hey, you there! Yes, you, Microsoft Word user -- you in the blue shirt. Do you want to have the contents of your computer's memory overwritten with malicious code? Really... you sure? We could take care of that for you, no problem. Are you positive about this? Lots of people seem to enjoy having their memory overwritten with malicious code, so we thought you might... OK, OK, no need to get snippy about it.

If you're certain you don't want your memory overwritten (c'mon, think of it like a weekend in Cabo -- what harm could it do?) then perhaps we could interest you in the Microsoft Office 2004 11.3.8 updater, which patches a vulnerability in Word (also present in Word 2000 and Word XP, but not in 2003 or 2007) that could allow the aforementioned overwriting. It's a 9.1 MB download or you can snag it from Office's Microsoft Auto-Update tool. Note that this is a patch only for 11.3.7, just in case you're a bit behind on your update schedule. As an added treat, the update is available in eight languages. Nice.

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Kurt

Hey Michael, ease up. The first sign of a weblog jumping the shark is when the authors get defensive in the comments. I happen not to care much about the iPhone posts and the current debate, but you need to rise above the taunts. While this is your forum, you don't need to respond and have the luxury of ignoring the posts that bother you.

October 12 2007 at 12:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jayjay

This TUAW article seems to have a bit of attitude...

October 12 2007 at 12:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Rose

Yes, Luna, we'll miss the eyeballs on the ads. Thank you for your thoughtful lesson on Webonomics 2.0; we would be bereft without your cogent and trenchant comments.

Tell ya what we won't miss: the extra snark.

October 12 2007 at 12:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Luna Lovegood

"We'll miss you."

You'll miss the eyeballs on the ads.

October 12 2007 at 12:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
superpixel

...but we'll always have those 3 comments

October 12 2007 at 9:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Rose

11 -- RMS, and the oh-so-funny "what's wrong, this isn't an iPhone hack post!" comments: sorry you're so disappointed, we'll miss you.

The fact is that TUAW isn't a newspaper with a limited number of column inches, and we weren't "too busy" to notice an MS Office upgrade, since Erica's posts don't slow the rest of us down. What does slow us down is everything else we have to do in our lives/jobs/school/families. I would have been happy to post about Office 11.3.8 two days ago if I'd had a moment to breathe. :-(

Anyway, since you've moved on you won't read this, but au revoir.

October 12 2007 at 7:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
RMS

If TUAW wasn't posting a million iPhone hacking articles, they might have noticed that this came out two days ago. Sorry guys, but I'm moving on.

October 11 2007 at 11:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
cycomachead

sorry, I have a hard time keeping track of all them bugs ;-)

October 11 2007 at 10:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Quine

@michael: that wasn't a bug, the update removed malicious code that was already present on your computer, commonly known as the "MSOffice" worm.

October 11 2007 at 9:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
R. Cabell

Funny, when it's in Office that your memory gets overwritten by malicious code, that's a Bad Thing. But when your iPhone's memory gets overwritten by malicious code (in a TIFF file hehehe) then that's a Good Thing!

October 11 2007 at 9:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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