Experts at SophosLabs have rung a bell of reminder for PC users to be cautious of unclasping uncalled-for files seeing that reports of a lately-revealed flaw in Microsoft PowerPoint has been found circulating around the corner. The un-patchedvulnerability is supposed to be enabling hackers or cyber crooks to dart pernicious code like a worm, on Mac computers and Windows.
The fine points of the issue has been published by Microsoft in a safety advisory, which is related to its website. The un-patched flaw is expected to be having an effect on Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, Microsoft PowerPoint v. X for Mac and Microsoft PowerPoint 2004 for Mac.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, said,
It’s been a bad few weeks for Microsoft on the security front. No sooner have they rushed to deal with a day zero vulnerability in the way their products handle Vector Markup Language than they discover an apparent problem with PowerPoint files.” “Hackers are showing increasing ingenuity in their attempts to break into innocent users’ computers, and are hunting for bugs in commonly-used programs to exploit. PowerPoint is the standard business tool for presentations, underlining that all computer users need to be show great caution when handling unsolicited email attachments.
