Microsoft confirms Office for Mac 2008 security risk

Office for Mac 2008 offers a security headache for many users, Microsoft has confirmed.

Office for Mac 2008 incorrectly assigns ownership of some files, Microsoft has confirmed, creating a potential security problem for businesses installing the new application suite.
[Microsoft] moved to Apple's Package Maker (.pkg) installer files, good news for the enterprise, [but] unfortunately they've created all the packages to install nearly all the files with the owner set to 502." Office 2008's ownership assignment means that a user who wasn't supposed to have complete control over those files actually does. In other words, whoever is assigned user ID 502 has full read/write access to Office's files.

Well this is an installation problem and your ID 502 will not kill the system just because it is has access to some files! LOL! Not to worry to much!