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

Re:what % of Windows is patches?

[GePS]

and it's time to start over new. And, hopefully get it right this time!


I see you haven't used many microsoft products before.

And yet, look at my sig for Linux vulnerabilities

[Overly Critical Guy]

...which definitely outnumbers five.

Here comes the part where people's excuse is that it's a joint effort, unable to be pinpointed as a "Linux hole." What does that mean? Nobody gets blame because a lot of people contribute? A lot of people contribute to Microsoft as well. They're just behind the moniker of a company label.

slashdot...

[mesach]

News for Nerds. Stuff that matters, now reads

Slashdot
and the bashing bashers that bash them. An unfair and biased look at Microsoft.

I'm not trying to troll, i'm trying to be funny, but I do suck at it.

Stuff that matters?

[scottganyo]

I mean, seriously, does anyone on Slashdot still use Windows?

Scott

Face it, Linux is popular enough.

[Shivetya]

First, why don't you do the work and prove that the vulnerabilities are dangerous or otherwise. Granted the off the cuff remark you threw back would gain karma on Slashdot.

However, the truth is, there is no public declaration of Linux vulnerabilities when found. We don't see much about those discovered because Linux still isn't that popular.

If Linux popularity does approach the levels needed to be noticed by the good virus writers who will take resposibility for notifying the public that they need a particular patch. Who will accept accountability for the problem? Worse, who is going to go through the myraid choices we have in releases and providers?

Its a constant that MS will get ridiculed here for telling people about issues, let alone when one occurs. Yet these same people have not one whit about what to do when it comes to Linux.

It isn't the readers here who are the problem, nor is the same true for Microsoft. Its all those people out there using the product who don't take the time to be informed.

Re:deja vu

[BrokenHalo]

And a "critical" flaw in Visual Basic? Since when did anybody use Visual Basic for anything critical anyway? I thought that was for newbies and wannabes.

Unless Microsoft is really telling us that Windows is written in Basic. That would just be too funny :-)...