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Microsoft Security Patch Fixes URL Security Flaw

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-more-typing-URLs dept.

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."

13 of 545 comments (clear)

  1. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP GO!

  2. First by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post!

  3. Finally they pick it up by jack_csk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought they don't care IE anymore.

  4. /. is infested with Communists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Communism is the enemy of Freedom and Liberty.
    Not to mention long-winded liars.

  5. How about Mozilla by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So right now if you connect to URL and the site is down, Mozilla Firebird loses your URL and shows about:blank as the destination? Site comes back up, you hit F5, - too bad, the open sores software just donated your URL to the Recycled Bin. Who do you have to screw in the Mozilla Foundation to get that fixed, so no URLs are lost?

  6. Help by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I was just working on my Linux system when it went into a kernel panic! What the heck is this! My Windows workstation has been up for 2w 6d 4h 4m 53s, and my Linux computer can hardly handle an hour? Anything I can do to fix this, /. ?

  7. This is entirely off-topic by notque · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In the MyDoom virus, someone wrote, I'm just doing my job, sorry, andy.

    Someone paid for it to be created.

    I wonder who would have done that (Story is on fark)

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  8. perhaps IE was named after by Tandoori+Haggis · · Score: 1, Offtopic

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

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  9. Re:At least better than the KB article :) by divide+overflow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    >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.

  10. And our Gov't deploys MS as OS of choice by quork · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

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  11. Re:Here are the patches: by tymbow · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

  12. Re:At least better than the KB article :) by lucifuge31337 · · Score: 2, Offtopic

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

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

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  13. 1000 emails by Deanasc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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