http://www.networkworld.com/community/taxonomy/term/12064 Showing new posts in a forum view en http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/27846 <p>Even if your users are completely trained to never open Word files with funky extensions, dangerous documents can come<img src="/Micronet images/security-lock.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="1" vspace="1" width="66" height="70" align="right" /> disguised with a friendly &quot;.doc&quot; extension. The <a href="/subnets/microsoft/">May Patch Tuesday</a> included an update that fixed a hole in Word relating to malicious RTF and HTML files, says <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/swi/archive/2008/05/13/file-block-and-ms08-026.aspx">a post in the Microsoft Security Vulnerability Research &amp; Defense </a>blog. However, if your users don&#39;t use, or rarely use, Word to open RTF or HTML documents, you may be better off blocking those files from loading in Word altogether. <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/27846"><br /><br /><strong>Read more</strong></a></span> http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/27846#comments Microsoft file blocking Microsoft security Microsoft Word Thu, 15 May 2008 16:44:14 -0400 Microsoft Subnet 27846 at http://www.networkworld.com/community