Friday, April 13th 2007
Word 2007 crashes are not a bug, but a feature designed to prevent...crashing.
As some of you know, there are already plenty of things out there that can harm a computer through Word 2007. Microsoft already thought through this, and added some software that automatically detects when Microsoft Word 2007 is being exploited, and shuts it down. However, this software also will shut down Word 2007 if it detects a Word document that it cannot read. While your computer is safer at the end of the day, there certainly is irony in how Word 2007 stops itself from crashing by, well, crashing.
Source:
The Inquirer
8 Comments on Word 2007 crashes are not a bug, but a feature designed to prevent...crashing.
No more needs to be said.
That is an odd way of protecting software. You would think they would block the executing thread and mark the file as a potential exploit, and then simply not load the file. I am no expert on the inner workings of Word, so maybe the safest thing to do is just kill it all.
shrug