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PowerPoint/Excel Update Fixes Macro Vulnerability

PowerPoint/Excel Update Fixes Macro Vulnerability — Microsoft has released a patch that prevents potentially malicious macro code from running in PowerPoint and Excel. The PowerPoint/Excel 2001 for ...
ZDNet

Office users face new macro risk

A new vulnerability has been detected in systems running Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, which allows a specially crafted macro to avoid detection and run malicious code on a victim's machine. The ...
CNET

Odds & Ends

PowerPoint 98: slow saving of files over a network Wes Simmonds has had a problem "involving unacceptably slow save of large (>200K) PowerPoint 98 documents to AppleTalk-based servers (AppleShare, ...
Tidbits

PowerPoint/Excel Update Fixes Macro Vulnerability

Microsoft has released a patch that prevents potential malicious macro code from running in PowerPoint 2001 for Mac and Excel 2001 for Mac. The PowerPoint/Excel 2001 for Mac Macro Vulnerability Update ...