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Hi :)
LibreOffice is probably unaffected by this issue as it seems to take advantage of vulnerabilities 
in MS Office.  Apparently a slightly modified version of the exploit  they suffered from last year 
can cause them problems again but there is a security patch for it in the normal MS Office updates 
and this time it is promised that it will really work, unlike the one from last year which they 
also promised would fix it.  

Quite why you would have DLL files in the same folder as a word-processor document or spreadsheet 
is a bit beyond me.  I am a bit disorganised at times but i don't think i ever managed it and it's 
not the default!  (unless you count the desktop or downloads folder where almost anything could be 
dumped).  

The ZdNet article about this gave some good links
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/ms-patch-tuesday-warning-opening-legitimate-doc-txt-files-brings-code-execution-risk/9399?tag=nl.e550
Such as this one
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-072

Someone recently was saying the MS wanted to discourage or even stop the use of .doc to push people 
into using their newer formats which only really work well on their newer products.  All very 
interesting timing or am i paranoid (or both)?  Anyway, it's one more good reason (or 5 according 
to that last link) for using LibreOffice.  
Regards from
Tom :)

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