MS Confirms Excel Zero-Day Attack
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on June 16, 2006 at 4:44:55 PM
Get your antivirus programs up to date. Yet another unpatched hole is allowing a worm to spread. Use OpenOffice!
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Anti-virus vendor Symantec said Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT and Windows 2000 computers are also at risk. Symantec was the first to raise a red flag about the attack, which includes the use of a Trojan horse program called Trojan.Mdropper.J. The Trojan arrives as a Microsoft Excel file attachment to a spoofed e-mail with the following name: "okN.xls."