Weekly Microsoft Critical Security Issue

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.

Comments

Reformatting my hard drive

[s20451]

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

JDK

[WPIDalamar]

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

Write once, debug everwhere.

Dilemma.

[Anonymous Coward]

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!

Let the Slashdot Madlibs Begin. . .

[Fritz Benwalla]

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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