Microsoft Notes Critical Security Holes in Windows, Office

Scoria writes "CNN is reporting that the infamous Microsoft has disclosed six critical Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, including some that would allow an attacker to execute arbitary commands. According to the relevant TechNet bulletin, a cumulative patch has been released to address them." Please be sure to read the EULA before installing the patch.

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OK folks let get it out of the way:

[Your_Mom]

In the intrest of brevity, lets get he usual comments out o the way:

• "Microsoft Sucks! This would never happen in Linux"
  
• "God, every time there is a security hole in a MSFT product, it warrants a fontpage story, meanwhile hard any hole in a Linux app is ever mentioned"
  
• "You know, if you were using OpenBSD"
  
• "Does this affect me? I use Linux 7.3"
  

ha!

[hatrisc]

haha... why should anyone be surprised? this happens time and time again and will continue to happen until microsoft sees the light and figures out that they don't write good software. if they would go through the software development method looking for flaws in their design or code in the first place we'd have significantly less problems. the other problem is that they try to get their software out before it's ready. this leaves all sorts of bugs that maybe would have been fixed. look at xp's first day service pack? how can anyone say that it was ready to be shipped when it did. i don't mind waiting for software as long as it's worth waiting for. in the case of microsoft none of their software is worth waiting for, because they dont' wait long enough to put it out.

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Re:Linux has a stream of patches too

[sys$manager]

Hmmm, typical zealotry.

Windows 2000 Server and newer includes a facility for automatically distributing patches. You don't have to spend any money.