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Supposedly, there is a patch coming in later today, but better safe than sorry.

"There's a new zeroday attack in the wild that's surreptitiously installing malware on fully-patched computers. It does so by exploiting a vulnerability in most or all versions of Microsoft Word."
http://arstechnica.com/security/2017/0 ... soft-0day/

http://arstechnica.com/security/2017/0 ... -millions/

Drydex: also known as Bugat and Cridex is a form of malware that specializes in stealing bank credentials via a system that utilizes macros from Microsoft Word.

So, turn off macros and/or use LibreOffice/OpenOffice instead of Word?
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Rob Kelk
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

According to the first article, it's not necessary to have macros enabled for this exploit to run.
-- Bob
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