{"id":521,"date":"2017-04-13T09:20:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/?p=521"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:20:11","slug":"how-to-open-office-files-without-being-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/how-to-open-office-files-without-being-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Open Office Files Without Being Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some good safety tips for opening Word documents, especially since Microsoft seems to be so slow at patching known exploits. \u00a0The easiest and most foolproof (so far) method is to open your documents in an online service: either Office online or Google Docs. \u00a0This way the desktop exploits can&#8217;t be utilized.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Microsoft Office document files you download from the internet can harm your PC. Office files\u00a0can contain dangerous macros, but macros aren\u2019t the only risk. With\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2017\/04\/microsoft-word-0day-used-to-push-dangerous-dridex-malware-on-millions\/\">new malware attacking PCs<\/a> through dangerous Office documents that don\u2019t even contain macros, keeping yourself safe in Office is just one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/173478\/10-important-computer-security-practices-you-should-follow\/\">the security practices you should follow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/302740\/how-to-open-office-files-without-being-hacked\/\">Read article&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/302740\/how-to-open-office-files-without-being-hacked\/\">How to Open Office Files Without Being Hacked<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some good safety tips for opening Word documents, especially since Microsoft seems to be so slow at patching known exploits. \u00a0The easiest and most foolproof (so far) method is to open your documents in an online service: either Office online or Google Docs. \u00a0This way the desktop exploits can&#8217;t be utilized. Microsoft Office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-windows-powerpoint","category-security-2","category-software","category-learn-how-to-use-your-softwarehardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}