Hacker in Office on-line help

[Jess]

Having just reinstalled my damged Norton firewall I was finally able to have
a look in the Office 2003 help sections today, or rather this morining, at
about 0200-0300 hours - I looked via Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. When I
looked at my Event Viewer, Security section, I found for this time span, many
"failed" warnings. This was something I had not had before, so I examined
them and was freaked-out to see that they were all instances of "Change
Password Attempt". Something was going through several guesses at account
names and passwords and trying to get into my computer. The Firewall did
nothing because it was allowing the Office help programs free access.

Was this an unauthorised attack, or is this how Office is supposed to work?
And if the former, then what should I do about it? Any ideas would be
appreciated. Thanks in hope,

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Jess
(XP Home SP/2 OEM. HDD1:Windows NTFS 60GB; Linux 20GB. HDD2:Windows NTFS
40GB. P4 HT.)
[Please note: Display name may be changed in near future - too many people
called Jess on this site.]

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Have you visited Windows Update lately?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to the
(insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal account
will be deleted without reading.
| Having just reinstalled my damged Norton firewall I was finally able to
have
| a look in the Office 2003 help sections today, or rather this morining, at
| about 0200-0300 hours - I looked via Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. When I
| looked at my Event Viewer, Security section, I found for this time span,
many
| "failed" warnings. This was something I had not had before, so I examined
| them and was freaked-out to see that they were all instances of "Change
| Password Attempt". Something was going through several guesses at account
| names and passwords and trying to get into my computer. The Firewall did
| nothing because it was allowing the Office help programs free access.
|
| Was this an unauthorised attack, or is this how Office is supposed to
work?
| And if the former, then what should I do about it? Any ideas would be
| appreciated. Thanks in hope,
|
| --
| Jess
| (XP Home SP/2 OEM. HDD1:Windows NTFS 60GB; Linux 20GB. HDD2:Windows NTFS
| 40GB. P4 HT.)
| [Please note: Display name may be changed in near future - too many people
| called Jess on this site.]
|

 

[Jess]

Not for Office, no! I've been so preoccupied with trying to sort out my file
corruption regarding the XP updates, that I forgot that the Office ones are
not automatic. Thanks.