MS09-024: Lower risk if you have Microsoft Word installed
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Today we released bulletin MS09-024 that fixes vulnerabilities in text converters for the Microsoft Works document file format (WPS). Reduced impact if Microsoft Office is installed The Works converters included with Microsoft Word are vulnerable. However, the Microsoft Word installer does not associate the WPS file extension with Word. So a user double-clicking a WPS file attachment for the first time would see the following dialog: