Stop Forwarding Power Point Files (.pps)

[stumonster]

all you fans of email forwarding , please stop passing on .pps files .

Unpatched Powerpoint Flaw Exploited

Online criminals are taking advantage of an unpatched security hole in Microsoft's Office products again. Security experts say they've spotted a flaw in the Powerpoint slide-presentation program being exploited in the wild.

This undocumented flaw does not appear to have been addressed in any of the 13 security updates Microsoft shipped this week to mend a variety of problems in Office software. As Security Fix and others have noted, some of the work Microsoft has done in hardening the security of the Windows operating system has forced the bad guys to look for lower-hanging fruit in applications that run on top of Windows, so we may see more Office flaws under attack.

full story here

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix...powerpoint.html

[Maestro]

all you fans of email forwarding , please stop passing on .pps files .

Unpatched Powerpoint Flaw Exploited

Online criminals are taking advantage of an unpatched security hole in Microsoft's Office products again. Security experts say they've spotted a flaw in the Powerpoint slide-presentation program being exploited in the wild.

I was hoping to find details of the alleged security flaw but the link to provided gives no such information.

What is it all about? What damage can it cause? How does it cause that damage?

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Maestro

[stumonster]

ymantec on Wednesday issued an advisory about a new trojan that takes advantage of an undocumented vulnerability in PowerPoint to infect a victim's computer with a backdoor. The malware, dubbed Trojan.PPDropper.B, uses a malformed string to execute code and modify EXPLORER.EXE.

While Symantec only gives PPDropper.B a risk level of "Very Low," Sunbelt Software CEO Alex Eckelberry notes that the attack looks more intended for corporate espionage than causing widespread damage. The trojan is currently being spread via e-mail, with a subject containing Chinese characters.

http://osnn.net/comments.php?shownews=13173

[Crossy]

Symantec information here :-

http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/securit...4413-99&tabid=2

[Maestro]

Thanks, Stumonster and Crossy.

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Maestro