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Microsoft Office patched to 11.3.8

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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1. Don't they fix this issue in every update?
M$, you bunch of liars!

Finally 5 days and I'll have iWork and will only use Office for certain special word art things. Not to mention word won't print and i dont care to fix it.

Posted at 8:37PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Cycomachead

2. Wait a tick! What's the deal? This is a post NOT about the iPhone. WTF?

Posted at 8:43PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Nate

3. Oops! Sorry, Nate, my mistake!

:-)

Posted at 8:45PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Michael Rose

4. @cycomachead

No silly, that was THE OTHER bug that allowed the contents of your computer's memory overwritten with malicious code. Don't get confused :)

Posted at 8:46PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Adam Mabe

5. Nate: I was shocked, too! The only non iPhone/iPod Touch post out of the most recent seven posts on TUAW.

Posted at 8:59PM on Oct 11th 2007 by matt

6. FWIW, when I grudgingly installed this update (it DOES feel like I've installed this identically described fix many times before), the updater crashed (ie, "quit unexpectedly") - and my Msft Word application file has disappeared.

The Microsoft Office 2004 folder in Applications now contains just Entourage, Excel and Powerpoint.

Pretty sweet.

I don't know what sort of advice this translates into, but...well, it's a user-report.

Posted at 9:03PM on Oct 11th 2007 by michael

7. So where are all those people complaining about too many iPhone/iPod posts?!

Now that we have some, they won't come appreciate them?

Posted at 9:05PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Justin

8. 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!

Posted at 9:11PM on Oct 11th 2007 by noza

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

Posted at 9:59PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Quine

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

Posted at 10:36PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Cycomachead

11. 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.

Posted at 11:19PM on Oct 11th 2007 by RMS

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