Microsoft Security Patch Fixes URL Security Flaw

loteck writes "Microsoft has just released Security Update 832894. According to their official information, it affects all NT kernel versions of Windows and most versions of Internet Explorer. Here's a rundown of the important fixes, notably 'A vulnerability that involves the incorrect parsing of URLs that contain special characters' in Internet Explorer, as previously discussed on Slashdot."

Comments

Finally they pick it up

[jack_csk]

I thought they don't care IE anymore.

perhaps IE was named after

[Tandoori Haggis]

"Aiee!!!", a death cry depicted in war comics?

Re:At least better than the KB article :)

[divide overflow]

>Because the quicker I see 'M$' or 'WinDOS' in a comment, the quicker I can disregard everything you've wrote, scroll past your post and add you to my 'retarded peon' list, never to take anything you say seriously ever again, even if its something completely unrelated.

Exactly the same way I treat Anonymous Coward posts such as yours.

And our Gov't deploys MS as OS of choice

[quork]

Talk about lame! Our government deploys BillG's crap everywhere... Oh, I forgot, BillG is THE GOV'T.

Re:Here are the patches:

[tymbow]

These sort of comments should be flagged as troll and never funny.

There is no wit in any of this anymore no matter how true it is.

Would everyone please come up with some new jokes.

Re:At least better than the KB article :)

[lucifuge31337]

Exactly the same way I treat Anonymous Coward posts such as yours.

Nice try, but you've disproved your own point by simply responding.

1000 emails

[Deanasc]

They both have good points except that if you really have 30,000 people who really want to hear what you have to say each day well you should have a Blog. For the rest of us, if we send an email to 1000 people... Well, 999 of them probably don't want to hear what we have to say.