Protect Office 2003 from malware attacks

Microsoft officials have released a much-anticipated tool to help protect Office 2003 from malware attacks.

"One of the things we noticed is that when we converted an exploit document to the new Office 2007 'Metro' format, it would either fail the conversion, emit a non-exploitable file or the converter itself would crash," Microsoft Senior Software Development Engineer David LeBlanc wrote in a blog post earlier this month. "Thus," he continued later, "if we could pre-process documents coming from untrusted sources from the older format to the new format, and then get an older version of Office to use its converter to read in the new file format, the customer is going to end up safer."

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