Flaw Finders Lay Seige to Microsoft Office

An anonymous reader writes "The Register is reporting that bug reports on the latest iteration of Microsoft Office are certainly keeping the Redmond firm's programmers busy. So far this year 24 flaws have been found by outside researchers, more than six times the number found in all of 2005. From the article: 'The deluge of vulnerabilities for the Office programs - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and, for professional users, Access -signals a shift in the focus of vulnerability research and underscores the impact of flaw-finding tools known as fuzzers. The vulnerabilities in Office also highlight the threat that such files, if remained unchecked, can pose to a corporate network. Not since the days of macro viruses and Melissa have Office files posed such a danger to computer security.'"

Seriously?

[Anonymous Coward]

Guys, guys. There's nothing wrong with Microsoft Office.

Re:Access ?

[mtrisk]

Clearly, Microsoft keeps track of internal bug reports through Access.

(I keed, I keed...)

Re:Siege

[linj]

Microsoft Office Bug #84782642 >> Not critical

Spell-check does not notice misspelled words.

Re:Access ?

[Gli7ch]

I believe by "professional user" our anonymous friend means "person who for some reason purchased the Professional Edition of Microsoft Office, possibly because it sounded cooler". I use it for phone numbers!

Re:OpenOffice needs this too

[Jeff DeMaagd]

Hey, OO.o is so independent of the operating system that my copy of 2.0.3 (or whatever was latest as of last week) can't even cut and paste!