No Patch For Excel Zero-Day Flaw 52
CWmike writes "Microsoft said today that it will deliver three security updates on Tuesday, one of them marked 'critical,' but will not fix an Excel flaw that attackers are now exploiting. 'It doesn't look like we're going to see patches for any open Microsoft security advisories,' said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security, pointing to three that have not yet been closed. Those include two advisories issued last year — one from April 2008, another from December — and the Excel alert published last week. 'I'm not really surprised that the Excel vulnerability won't be patched, what with the timeline,' said Storms, 'but the others have been open for a long time.'"
What's the big deal??? (Score:2, Funny)
So you receive a virus riddled Excel spreadsheet, open it, the virus infects your system, and what...your system runs as shitty as it always did, the uptime and stability go from crapsville to shitycity, the OS is still as sluggish as it's always been. I mean, hell, there's even a shot that the virus will make things a little better. At least maybe you'll get occassional porn popups from the system tray, and your IE home page will be redirected to an asian teen movie site. I'd say it's a net win.
Put it into perspective... (Score:2, Funny)
I have an excel spreadsheet that shows the history of such an exploit. Please open the following...