It now says that, instead of the file formats themselves being insecure, it is the parsing code that Office 2003 uses to open and save the file types that is less secure. On Friday, Microsoft admitted that the information it had provided was wrong, and that it had underestimated how many users had been affected. It provided a workaround for users who wanted to unblock the formats, but made the process complicated, requiring changes to the registry which could have made users' PCs inoperable if they were applied incorrectly. The advisory, posted in December, told users that dozens of file formats had been blocked in the latest service pack for Office 2003-Service Pack 3 (SP3)-because they were insecure. Microsoft has acknowledged it made a mistake over a security advisory it released concerning Office 2003.
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