Microsoft Issues Five New Security Warnings

smelroy writes "Microsoft on Wednesday issued security bulletins for five new software vulnerabilities, including a flaw in Visual Basic for Applications that the company rated as critical. The company has posted patches for each of the flaws on its Web site. Four of the problems affect Microsoft's Office desktop software. You can read the story here and the security bulletins here."

Comments

Snapshot Viewer affected?

[Karl Cocknozzle]

Crap! That means I have to touch every machine in the enterprise--again! Just two weeks after "touching 'em all" (not in the baseball sense) from the last round of worm patches.

How I long for the old days of Novell... Ah...take me away!

This is the origin of the apache servers name...

[evil_one666]

http://www.apache.org/history/timeline.html

Brian Behlendorf started collecting patches to be applied to the last version of NCSA. The initial versions of Apache are available primarily as a series of patches. Hence, initially, the name Apache, as it was "a patchy server". At least, so the legend goes.

Comparing Red Hat updates to MS..

[saintjab]

I'm sure this will get modded down, or ignored by the moderators all together, as off topic; but I feel it's a good camparison. I have two, relatively similar, workstations. One running Red Hat 9 and the other WinXP. I use RH Up2Date on the Linux bawx and Windows Update on the XP machine religiously. The observation that I have made are pretty amazing. Microsoft releases roughly 4 patches for every 1 that RH releases. The RH packages, other than kernel updates, do not require any reboots; where most of the MS ones do. I've not had a single occurrance of an adverse effect on my Linux machine from any patches, where I have had a miriad of issues with the XP/Office updates (insert CD, permissions issues, BSODs, etc). I'm not at all trying to scream the virtues of Linux and downplay MS, but there are real issues. Not to even mention never having adware, spyware, etc. installed on my RH machine without my knowledge. I'm extremely carefull with all of my machines and I stilled managed to get some IE search bar added to my browser. I removed it quickly with Spybot search and destroy, but it still happened. I think MS needs to take a step back from the cash register and seriously evealuate their tactics and practice where desktops are conncered. That is, if they ever want their update service to be even close to as effective as RH. But thats just my two cents and I'm sure there are a line of people out there to tell me I'm wrong and/or full of crap; but these are real world observations from someone who is completely OS neutral. ..jab