Excursus

Despite my deep aversion to it, I still have Microsoft Word 2004 on my hard disk. Largely because administrators keep sending me Word docs, not to edit but simply to read, many of which have complex tables that TextEdit fails to render sufficiently well to be usable. (When will people learn to send PDFs? There are a number of free Word to PDF converters.) Anyway, if like me, if you are stuck with Word, if only occasionally, it is time to run the updater because there is a critical security risk:

This update fixes a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. For more information about this update, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article (KB949357).

Further information about this update can be found here.

Update: The Borg are watching.