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MS adds
sandboxing to Office 2010
Microsoft
has announced plans to introduce sandboxing technology with
the next version of its Office suite.
Office 2010 will incorporate sandboxing technology so that when
users want to simply read Office documents, these files will have no
access to other files or information. "Even if the file is
malicious, it can’t get out of the sandbox and do harm to your
computer or data," explains Brad Albrecht, a Microsoft security
specialist on the Office 2010 blog.
The sandboxing approach is a well-known mechanism for safely running
untrusted programs that has been applied to Java Applets and (more
recently) to Google's Chrome browser software. The technology will
be used in conjunction with enhanced file (format inspection)
blocker features and validity checks to provide a layered defense
for Office 2010.