Tag: EXCEL

This week, Microsoft hosted the final rounds of the Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office, during which 50-odd young people gathered in Park City, Utah, and competed to prove which four were the most proficient in Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007, and Microsoft Excel 2003 and 2007, respectively. Those few dozen showed themselves to be the best of the best among a pool of 115,000 entrants. As part ...

Just about a week after a sweeping security hole was announced that affects most versions of Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, software widely used by computers around the world, now we have news of a disconcerting security gap in another piece of popular software: Microsoft's Excel. The company is indicating that versions of the software dating back to Office 2000 are vulnerable to exploit, and a ...

Spammers, while evil, are a crafty bunch. They constantly adapt to the security firms who attempt to stay ahead of these scam artists. It used to be that spammers were simply the junk mailers of the electronic world, assuring you were aware of the latest deals on 'personal enhancement' devices. Then viruses and spyware embedded in HTML and images became a new threat. In January, image-based spam ...