Microsoft announces new Office security tools
ENT News | at | by Mike
Yesterday, Microsoft announced the availability of its Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment, a feature it hopes will help put the kibosh on an increasingly common exploit vector ?- the innocent-looking Office document with a malicious payload.
Microsoft also alerted users to the File Block functionality that's already built into Office 2007. File Block, like MOICE, can help minimize the danger posed by malicious Office files, Microsoft officials say.
MOICE uses Office 2007's built-in tools to convert Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2003 binary documents into the Office 2007 Open XML format.