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Old 05-28-2009
Microsoft Security Advisory (971778): Vulnerability in Microsoft DirectShow Could All
Revision Note: Advisory published. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a new vulnerability in Microsoft DirectX. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if user opened a specially crafted Quicktime media file. Microsoft is aware of limited, active attacks that use this exploit code. While our investigation is ongoing, our investigation so far has shown that Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 are vulnerable; all versions of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are not vulnerable. Microsoft has activated its Software Security Incident Response Process (SSIRP) and is continuing to investigate this issue.

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kantiword

KANTIWORD(1)							Linux User's Manual						      KANTIWORD(1)

NAME

       kantiword - installs desktop icon for d'n'd function of antiword

SYNOPSIS

       kantiword [ papersize  wordfile ]

DESCRIPTION

       kantiword is a helper script for antiword(1), an application that displays the text and the images of Microsoft Word documents.
       Kantiword can be used to install an icon on your destop (into ~/Desktop dir), if it will be invoked with less that 2 parameters.
       If  it  is  called  with  2 parameters, it will convert a copy of wordfile to PDF and display it. Plain text output will be used, if no PDF
       viewer like kpdf, xpdf or gv is installed.

PARAMETER

       papersize
	      paper size ('a4' or 'letter') of given wordfile.

       wordfile
	      Microsoft Word document to display.

SEE ALSO

       antiword(1).

AUTHOR

       kantiword was written by Adri van Os <antiword@winfield.demon.nl> and adapted by Erik Schanze <eriks@debian.org>.

       This manual page was written by Erik Schanze <eriks@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
       Adobe, PDF and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
       Microsoft is a registered trademark and Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

Antiword 0.37							   Jun 03, 2009 						      KANTIWORD(1)