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Microsoft Releases Eight Security Updates

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the locking-down dept.

Juha-Matti Laurio writes "After a very uncommon break in March Microsoft has just published 8 new security updates. Almost all updates that are a part of the monthly release cycle are rated as 'Critical.' New Windows Shell vulnerability, named as MS05-016 is only 'Important,' but Windows XP Service Pack 2 is affected too, however. This is not the first time when there was something to fix at Shell32.dll. Vulnerabilities in TCP/IP that could allow remote code execution and denial of service at cumulative bulletin MS05-019 are affecting SP2 too. Windows Kernel, Exchange, MSN Messenger, Word (Office) and Internet Explorer get their updates as well."

4 of 344 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I wonder . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Huh? These are patches, not new features being added.

    Technically, they are feautures being removed. Microsoft should pay us to install them. :(

  2. Re:Woohoo! by 0x461FAB0BD7D2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Contrarily, a punchline is an endpoint, and not a process.

  3. Re:WS2K3 SP1 by mopslik · · Score: 5, Funny

    They want a blindingly fast machine with a 90 inch display that fits on their keychain and uses no power.

    Now that's not true at all. I want my machine to generate power, which I can then use to run the cake machine.

  4. Re:Phew! by Laura_DilDio · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, this just evidence that Microsoft takes security seriously -- more seriously, in fact, than that pinko-commie-bastard operating system you all feel so drawn towards.

    Also, I'll have you pigs know that I'm leaving my duties at the Yankee Group. I've accepted a position serving Lord William at Microsoft. I'm to be his new Groom of the Stool

    Love,
    Laura