Tag Archive for: Word

Mac malware found in malformed Word documents – is China to blame?

Minority groups in China appear to have been targeted by a Mac malware attack, delivered via boobytrapped Word documents. Who could possibly be interested in targeting their computers?
Naked Security – Sophos

Patches for critical Word flaw, RSA key length, clerical timestamp code-signing error

There was a somewhat strange security update rolled out on Patch Tuesday, being that it does not address a security flaw, but rather a clerical timestamp error on binaries; this code-signing error will cause the digital signature on files produced and signed by Microsoft to expire and become invalid prematurely. Because “of the two k Read more

Ms. Smith’s blog

How come every time I open Microsoft Word, a Norton Internet Security window pops up?

It says, “The virus definitions required by Norton Internet Security are not valid …”

I don’t understand how virus protection and Word are at all related.