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Forum Thread: False Positive and Possible Solution?
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Relating to this vendor: Microsoft |
And, this specific program: Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2003 |
| kardmania | False Positive and Possible Solution? |
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3rd Jul, 2009 20:36 |
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Ranking: 0 Posts: 34 User Since: 7th Jun, 2009 System Score: N/A Location: N/A |
I have applied all updates from the windows update http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/ there are no updates to apply from the download solution source this relates to the following issues as well Frontpage 2002 (10.6308.6845)SP3 C:\program files\microsoft office\office\office 10\frontpg.exe Powerpoint Viewer 2003 C:\SWsetup\msworks\us\pfiles\office\ppv\pptview.ex file rescans shows insecurity still was an issue Does it make sense to download and install the 2007 version and to delete the 2003 version or is this a false positive? |
| Maurice Joyce | RE: False Positive and Possible Solution? | ||||||||
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3rd Jul, 2009 23:42 | ||||||||
| Score: 10510 Posts: 8,071 User Since: 4th Jan 2009 System Score: 100% Location: UK |
It is not a false positive. PowerPoint Viewer 2003 will not be available after 16 October 2009 - I assume that means End of Life. Microsoft are now actively encouraging the use of their 2007 viewer which allows the reading of PPTX & PPSX extentions created by users of Office 2007. Details here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa... -- Maurice Windows 7 SP1 64 Bit OS HP Intel Pentium i7 IE 10 for Windows 7 16GB RAM |
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| kardmania | RE: False Positive and Possible Solution? | ||||||||
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3rd Jul, 2009 23:50 | ||||||||
| Score: 0 Posts: 34 User Since: 7th Jun 2009 System Score: N/A Location: N/A |
I presume based on your remarks that it does make sense to clean out the old program; however, the failure of the download solution indicated by secunia is not addressed. | ||||||||
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| Maurice Joyce | RE: False Positive and Possible Solution? | ||||||||
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4th Jul, 2009 00:05 | ||||||||
| Score: 10510 Posts: 8,071 User Since: 4th Jan 2009 System Score: 100% Location: UK |
I agree - I treat them as suggested rather than "the solution". Once I know the file they have found as insecure I find my own using the vendor sites. In your case there are two issues. Updates for Office 97/2000/2002/XP have never been part of Windows update. Your Powerpoint Viewer element appears to be in a version of Microsoft Works. Given that PSI is a clone of the paid for Corporate Version not sure they will point U in the right direction either in that Works is not a business tool. -- Maurice Windows 7 SP1 64 Bit OS HP Intel Pentium i7 IE 10 for Windows 7 16GB RAM |
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| kardmania | RE: False Positive and Possible Solution? | ||||||||
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4th Jul, 2009 01:41 | ||||||||
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Thanks I suppose what is throwing me with the 3 microsoft issues is that I did patch these programs with broader and newer cures than were suggested andyet the programs still show insecure. I presume that Access ultimately came off the insecure list based on secunia catching up to these cures. | ||||||||
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