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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. Question for michael... by turbine216 · · Score: 2, Troll

    Could you have been any LESS enthusiastic about that blurb? What, have your hopes for "armageddon courtesy of your pals at Microsoft" been obliterated? Sorry to hear it.

    Anyway, this is a really good indication on the part of MS...perhaps an indicator of more initiative on these problems in the future. I definitely think that this is the type of thing that they need to continue if they wish to salvage their reputation at all...

    1. Re:Question for michael... by FortKnox · · Score: 0, Troll

      Why? Because at times like these when the FBI is engineering Trojan horses to be snuck onto people's computers--and the US antivirus industry has capitulated--closed source operating systems, browsers and other software seriously lose credibility with anyone desirng privacy.

      Dude, lay off the Deus Ex.

      Mozilla and Konqueror might not do everything that IE can do, but they have 80-90% of its functionality. Try KDE under Mandrake 8.1 and you'll see just how far OSS has come.

      I run SuSE 7.2 with KDE at home, actually. WinME on my gaming machine. I'm not insulting OSS, I'm just insulting the zealotous. If people want open source to rule, they need to be more humble, open, and not so elitest. Because most of those that make the decisions in computer companies get completely turned off by closed-visioned, zealotous elitests.

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  2. Untill the next one is found next week by spineboy · · Score: 0, Troll

    These seroius bugs seem o pop up almost on a weekly basis. Soon crackers will find holes in the patches upon patches.....

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  3. Protecting customers by mknapp905 · · Score: 1, Troll

    "Microsoft thanks Jouko Pynnonen of Oy Online Solutions Ltd for reporting this issue to us and working with us to protect customers. " Hmm Lots of Kudos to Jouko, but what about the Millions of other users who have been screwed by M$ over the years??? Microsoft Protecting their customers??? From what....M$?????

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  4. Re:Ahhhh GOOD! by gakido · · Score: 0, Troll

    Microsoft: We are your merchant. We are your church. We are your state.

    ...and that 14 inch black rubber cock that's trying to wriggle up your pant leg

  5. +1 Funny by openbsd_guru · · Score: 0, Troll
    This problem was fixed in OpenBSD six months ago.

    -t