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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. But quickly fixed... by pro-mpd · · Score: 5, Informative

    OK, so I hate MS for building unsafe software. But this time, I have to give them credit. I woke up this morning to my computer telling me that there was a critial update waiting to be installed, and it was this one. I read about the vulnerability on the web *after* installing the patch, so I am kinda glad that MS shoves updates down my throat.

  2. Re:jvm by jhouserizer · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's MICROSOFT'S JAVA IMPLEMENTATION.

    The problem is NOT Java.

    The problem is (and always has been) Micro$oft's purposely broken version of Java.

  3. RTFA by Dr.+Bent · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the second paragraph:

    The three warnings, all issued on Wednesday, involve the Microsoft Virtual Machine for running Java applets on Windows

    So it's Microsoft's VM implementation...

  4. Re:Hmm... by jhouserizer · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually the court order is to put Sun's version of the JVM into Windows - exactly to fix this type of stupid problem.

  5. Applets, not apps. by vidnet · · Score: 3, Informative

    Big difference. Apps have total control by default, while applets are supposed to be harmless.