Comments on: Fix for Office 2008 Security Issue

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:56:44 +0000

have they still not had a patch to fix this issue yet? what could take them so long?

By: Bob Rudis

Bob Rudis — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:09:48 +0000

@Patrick haven’t had any feedback along those lines. If you copy/pasted from Mac Mojo before ~0700 Seattle-time, you’ll need to re-do the cut/paste. Erik missed a quote and fixed it early this morning.

@Karen: It will just fail on that directory, same as pasting the lines from Erik’s blog.

Since Microsoft will probably wait until “patch Tuesday” I’ll make the script a bit more robust (check for presence of directories) and more verbose (tell you what it’s doing with any errors) [if that's something folks would like]

By: Alfred

Alfred — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:57:05 +0000

Sorry, resolved after a restart.

By: Alfred

Alfred — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:48:53 +0000

Thanks for providing the file. But after fixing the permissions, I couldn’t copy and paste and my spotlight icon disappeared suddenly…

By: Patrick Mosby

Patrick Mosby — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:46:00 +0000

I don’t exactly know why but your little application didn’t work for me. It just tells me that it’s fixing permissions for the last 30 minutes.

I looked at the Mac Mojo site, pasted in the terminal commands and it was finished in a matter of seconds.

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:37:12 +0000

Hi,

I believe that this will fail for anyone who has installed the Home & Student Edition of Office 2008 since they won’t have a “Library/Automator” directory.

However, you can open up the package, browse through Contents/Resources to the script, open it up in a text editor and edit the commands to remove the above directory. You can then copy and paste the commands to Terminal and run them.

By: Patrick Mosby

Patrick Mosby — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:16:42 +0000

Thanks for pointing this out.