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Weekly Microsoft Critical Security Issue

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yet-another-choice-hole dept.

An anonymous reader sent in linkage to a zd story discussing the latest Windows Security Patches including an especially nice hole letting Java apps gain total control of your machine and assist you in reclaiming disk space by, say, reformating your drive.

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  1. It's about time... by slide-rule · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... that my Java skills can be used for evil, rather than good. ;-)

    1. Re:It's about time... by FuzzyMan45 · · Score: 3, Funny

      The word awesome has been deprecated. We now only use good and some prefixes. So, i think the question is, do you use it for Good, or for doubleplusgood.

  2. Reformatting my hard drive by s20451 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That'll work out great. I just downloaded the RH9 ISOs.

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  3. JDK by WPIDalamar · · Score: 5, Funny


    Good thing Microsoft JRE is so broken, that all exploits ended up not working!

    Write once, debug everwhere.

  4. More Anti-MS FUD! by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Geez guys, why can't you go a day without publishing anti-MS crap! Don't you think that if this were really a problem that people'd be aff.... K(R*AB(*D [NO CARRIER]

  5. Dilemma. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So I now have two options.

    * Let baddies in at their will.
    * Run Windows Update, expose my machine to Msoft, sign away my soul through the patch EULA.

    Help!

  6. This just in... by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the office of Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (aka Baghdad Bob):

    "Lies all Lies! The infidel Linux computers are not secure. The coilation will fall in the wake of the mighty secure Microsoft operating system!"

    More at 11.

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  7. Let the Slashdot Madlibs Begin. . . by Fritz+Benwalla · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let me save many of us some time:

    "Well here we go again. A gaping security hole in Microsoft [ Operating System ]. This never would have happened if Bill Gates weren't just trying to make more money so he could buy more [ plural noun ] to fill up his mansion in [ place ]

    This is just one more reason why [ circuit court ] should [ verb ] that [ expletive ] company once and for all.

    [ Unix-based operating system ] only had this problem [ number ] in it's entire history, and there was a patch posted in under [ number ] minutes!

    [ Text-based word processor ] rulez! Micr- [ Insulting variation on 'soft' ] is the [ Traditional evil diety ]!"

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  8. i'm okay by misterhaan · · Score: 4, Funny

    see, this is why i print out all of the data on my hard drives in binary every weekend.

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  9. So Happy It's Thursday by wowbagger · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, it is now officially Thursday. Aa I've said before, I think there should be an
    Official
    So
    Happy
    It's
    Thursday for announcing MS holes.

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