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A new vulnerability has been found in Microsoft Corp.’s Excel spreadsheet program, just a few days after the company fixed problems with several of its applications in its monthly patch distribution. One customer reported an attack using the vulnerability, which comes from an e-mail with a malicious Excel document attached, wrote Mike Reavey, Microsoft security program manager, on the company’s security blog.

The blog post did not give further details on what the malware does when downloaded.

Reavey noted that the e-mail application should prompt users to take care if they attempt to open the attachment. He also cautioned against opening unsolicited documents. Vulnerability found in Microsoft Excel

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