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Uber-patch for Internet Explorer

Posted by michael on from the repatch-and-sin-no-more dept.

malevolence writes: "According to The Register, Microsoft has released an Uber-Patch for Internet Explorer that fixes all known security problems, as well as 3 new ones, including the content-type issue that was reported on slashdot a few days ago."

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  1. Uber Patch by IgnorantKnucklehead · · Score: 4, Funny

    What does the "uber patch" do, install Mozilla?

    1. Re:Uber Patch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Yes, actually it does install Mozilla. Your system then slows to a crawl, locks up and hangs, and then your system is impenetrable by baddies.

    2. Re:Uber Patch by Negadecimal · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or better, Magic Lantern.

      It'd be the perfect trojan horse... MS gets leniency from the DOJ in exchange for some...favors.

    3. Re:Uber Patch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I saw that.

      -The FBI

    4. Re:Uber Patch by discogravy · · Score: 2, Funny

      or slashdot has an unusually large Mac-user readership.

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  2. What a ripoff. by Mike+Schiraldi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Boy, Microsoft sucks. This patch doesn't even address future, yet-to-be-discovered vulnerabilities.

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    1. Re:What a ripoff. by SubtleNuance · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...no but it probably introduces a few...

  3. MS Craziness by Fatal0E · · Score: 5, Funny



    Just when I thought that I knew the difference between a Service Pack, Security Rollup Patch and a cumulative Hot Fix they go and release a Security Bulletin like this one.

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    1. Re:MS Craziness by Chundra · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ok it's easy:

      Service Packs are the small, 6-8oz cups with the foil tops. They usually contain yogurt or pudding.

      Rollup Patches are dried fruit puree attached to thin plastic wrap. You tear the fruit substance off the plastic before eating.

      Hot Fixes are the things you remove from the plastic bag and put in the microwave. They usually consist of some sort of bread substance with a meaty and/or cheesy filling.

      Hope that clears things up.

  4. Hmm... by Ivan+Raikov · · Score: 1, Funny

    It said Requires Windows 95 or better, so I installed Linux. Now what?

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    1. Re:Hmm... by kigrwik · · Score: 2, Funny

      > It said Requires Windows 95 or better, so I installed Linux. Now what?

      That's easy !

      $ wine iexplore.exe
      err:win32:PE_fixup_imports No implementation for SHLWAPI.dll.249(StrRetToStrW) imported from C:\windows\system\shdocvw.dll, setting to 0xdeadbeef
      wine: Unhandled exception, starting debugger...

      ah, well. "apt-get install mozilla" , then I guess...

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  5. More like Deja Patch... by chinton · · Score: 2, Funny

    100s of beautiful security fixes... and 3 ugly ones.

  6. Re:Untill the next one is found next week by Webmoth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Reminds me of a pair of pants my neighbor had. So many patches there wasn't any original fabric left.

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  7. Re:Protecting customers by Webmoth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft is like a condom. It'll protect you, but if you use it, you're screwed.

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  8. Fast Patching. by saintlupus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, it's certainly a good thing that there are so many people looking at the source to produce a patch...

    er....

    Never mind.

    --saint

  9. Great by El_Smack · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now Microsoft will get Slahdotted. One more reason for them to hate us. *sigh*

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  10. Re:Been there, done that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    *sigh* It's Friday afternoon. Time to go home. No more f*cking patches to do.


    Not so fast, buster. First we need you to change the toner cartridge on the LJ4 up on third floor.

    hup-hup to it, now, IT boy. The girls in the secretary pool don't call you 'sysadmin' (while smirking) for nothing.

  11. I just installed it by MrResistor · · Score: 2, Funny
    Strangely, it actually seems to be faster. I can't say I've ever had that experience when upgrading a Microsoft product. Could just be that new code smell going to my head though...

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  12. Re:Happy Friday by SuiteSisterMary · · Score: 3, Funny

    Step 1: Download patch.
    Step 2: load onto test box. Start tests.
    Step 3: Works great. Create SMS package.
    Step 4: Schedule SMS to install the package Saturday at, oh, say three PM.
    Step 5: Send out yet another email reminding users that if they don't leave their computers on over the weekend, the full virus scan, software updates and disk defrag that would have run, will infact run on Monday when they come in, and it will NOT be stopped, and their managers know this, even if they don't.
    Step 6: Profit!

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  13. Re:I turned off Active Scripting to be secure by dR.fuZZo · · Score: 3, Funny

    You guys need to make your site work without Javascript. Sheesh. How can anyone take you seriously?

    Seems pretty professional to me. Some of the finest porn sites do that.

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  14. Re:Does anyone else feel immoral? by istartedi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does anyone else feel immoral browsing the web with an Internet Explorer USER_AGENT?

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Cu rr entVersion\Internet Settings] "User Agent"="Mozilla/Church Lady 3.01"

    Would that make you morally superior?

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