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Microsoft Office Support News Watch - August 10, 1998

Microsoft Office Support News Watch
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As a subscriber to the Microsoft Office Support News Watch, you receive e-mail twice each month that highlights some of the new articles recently published on Support Online, Microsoft's award-winning technical support web site.


E-mail Security Alert
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Recently Microsoft was notified by AUSCERT (http://www.auscert.org.au), OUSPG (http://www.oulu.fi) and NTBugtraq (http://ntbugtraq.ntadvice.com) of a security issue affecting the way Microsoft e-mail clients handle file attachments with extremely long file names.

On July 27th, Microsoft published a patch for Outlook 98 and Outlook Express 4.x that fixes the problems as reported. For more information about this problem and how to fix it, link to the following Microsoft security bulletin:

   http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/ms98-008.htm

Microsoft has published the following two Knowledge Base (KB) articles on this issue:

   - Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article Q168019, Update Available For Outlook Express Security Issue,
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q168/0/19.asp

   - Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article Q175807, OL98:Update Available For Outlook 98 Security Issue,
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q175/8/07.asp


Year 2000 Compliance Information
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For the latest official word about year 2000 compliance by Microsoft products, visit the "Microsoft Year 2000 Resource Center" at:

   http://www.microsoft.com/y2k/


Microsoft Office Update Web Site
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For the latest in product information, enhancements, assistance and business resources, visit the Microsoft Office Update Site. This site is continually updated, so check back often for new information.

   http://www.microsoft.com/office/update.asp


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http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q183/1/21.asp.


Sincerely,
The Support Online staff

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