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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. Oh my! by sdo1 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I just installed it... and it deleted IE!!!!

    Worked perfectly, I'd say....

    -S

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  2. Removes Outlook by ruiner13 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Probably a 22MB script to remove Outlook and anything fun (read, not microsoft)

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  3. It probably breaks about 15 new things. by Ghengis · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It probably breaks about 15-20 other things in the process and passes them off by calling them features. It also probably bloats the program even more, prompting people to buy new machines, since theirs are now slow, and low and behold, MS has sold some more copies of XP! Woohooo.

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  4. Probably Installs 'Magic Lantern' by Noxxus · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I wouldn't install it considering the timing of all this news about the FBI's keystroke-logging Trojan. A "Windows Update" would be the perfect vehicle for the Feds to sneak their code onto machines, and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if they were in cahoots with Redmond just like they were in years past with the big Telcos.

  5. Patches following issues by jcasey · · Score: 1, Redundant

    If the patch works as it should... ;)

    1. Corrects the way it handles the Content-Disposition and Content-Type header fields in an HTML stream.

    2. Patches a vulnerability to a newly discovered variant of the "Frame Domain Verification"

    3. Prevents a site from misreporting the name of files that users attempt to download.

    More details can be found here

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  6. Re:Question for michael... by CoolVibe · · Score: 1, Redundant
    > (notice the GAPING HOLE in Solaris/AIX [slashdot.org] systems that still isn't patched? Why aren't you going off on that?)

    It wasn't just AIX/Solaris, it was also a ssh bug, which affected other platforms as well.

    I'm not really much of an MS basher (I don't use their products, but that's just my choice), but bugs are bugs. Bugs happen. And you have to admit that /. (it's authors and much of the readership) is a bit biased when it comes to MS :-)

  7. Re:Question for michael... by rabidcow · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Remember when you had to purchase Netscape, but IE was free?

    No, I was a student back then. How is this relevant anyway? (Remember when IE TOTALLY SUCKED?) So MS had deeper pockets than Netscape. So what? How much do you have to pay for mozilla?

    Mozilla MAY -become- better, but it isn't, yet.

    For me it is. For everyone else, who cares?

    The bias on /. is VERY old news.