Free 2000 security software for windows

Microsoft Word 2000 Security Update: Macro Vulnerability Update is a reliable and useful live update module which will enable users to update Microsoft word frequently.

Word, like other members of the Office product family, provides a security mechanism that requires user's approval to run macros. By design, anytime a document is opened the user would be notified if the document contains macros. In addition, this mechanism checks secondary documents that the original document links to, such as templates, and warn if any of those contain macros. This feature works by scanning the document or template for the presence of macros, alerting the user of their presence, and then asking the user if he wants to allow the macros to run.

By embedding a macro in a template, and providing another user with an RTF document that links to it, an attacker could cause a macro to run automatically when the RTF document was opened. The macro would be able to take any action that the user herself could take. This could include disabling the user's Word security settings so that subsequently-opened Word documents would no longer be checked for macros.

The HyperTerminal application is a utility that installs, by default, on all versions of Windows 98, 98SE, Windows ME, Windows NT, and Windows 2000. The product contains an unchecked buffer in a section of the code that processes Telnet URLs. If a user opened an HTML mail that contained a particularly malformed Telnet URL, it would result in a buffer overrun that could enable the creator of the mail to cause arbitrary code to run on the user?s system. HyperTerminal is the default Telnet client on Windows 98, 98SE and ME. However, it is not the default Telnet client on Windows 2000, and Windows 2000 users who have not taken steps to make it the default Telnet client would not be affected by the vulnerability. (Windows NT4.0 is not affected by this vulnerability. The HyperTerminal client that ships with Windows NT4 does not include a TCP/IP connection method. As such, the NT4 HyperTerminal client cannot be setup as the default telnet client, and would not launch in response to a supplied Telnet URL.)

Outlook 2000/98 Insecurity Post Patch 1.0 is written to be a free patch designed for users with MS Outlook 2000/98 and Service Pack 1 & 2, which includes a 'security feature' blocking all incoming attachments with the extensions like .exe and .lnk.

The patch will update the outllib.dll in your office folder and disable the security features on specific extensions. The original outllib.dll will be copied to the subdirectory 'Outlook 2000 Security Patch' in your system folder. Close Outlook before patching! Usage at your own risk!.