New service pack for Office 2003
Posted by Maxim Weinstein
Microsoft has released a new service pack (service pack 3) for Microsoft Office 2003, the pervasive suite of applications that includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. This service pack reportedly fixes a long list of security vulnerabilities in these applications. While we have not seen a lot of Office-related attacks lately, these apps represent a potential attack vector that home and business users alike should be trying to block by installing updates like this latest service pack.
Despite popular belief, the Automatic Update feature in Windows does not download updates for Office and other applications, but only for Windows and Internet Explorer. (There is a free download known as Microsoft Update that extends Automatic Update to include Office products.) Therefore, you may need to follow the link above for instructions on how to download and install the service pack.