[geeks] Office OS X

Kurt Huhn kurt at k-huhn.com
Wed Nov 20 14:31:26 CST 2002


Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:

> I'm hearing reports that Office for OS X listens on port 96 for UDP
> packets from the network.  Anyway know anything about this?  Is it
> exploitable?  That would make me think long and hard about continueing
> to avoid OS X when I get my Mac (spoken in faith that I'll be able to
> get one before OS XI comes out).

Or just don't run Office on OS-X.  I'm waiting until OpenOffice or
StarOffice becomes available - it does way more than I'll ever need to do,
and it costs *way* less than Office.

-- 
Kurt
kurt at k-huhn.com



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