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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."

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  1. Re:Emerge! Emerge! by tajmorton · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    as well as legislation outlawing RPMs...
    What is the problem with RPMs...care to elaborate?
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    Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember.
  2. Windows... when will the bugs get squashed?! by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Time to stop running Windows, which I use under QEMU... XP is too darn slow under QEMU anyway. That's why I'm waiting for Darwine!

    I just don't understand why an entire computer's hardware has to be emulated in software, and then the operating system, with all its polling and processing loops, interrupt handling, and background crap that it does, has to be emulated as well.

    Darwine is going to eliminate that. It's going to have an application loader, so when you click a Windows .EXE in Mac OS, it will open it in a loader. QEMU will then run the executable, emulating only the processor. All system calls will convert data structures to Mac format and then call Wine functions, which will be compiled natively under Mac OS. I think this will bring about a tremendous speedup, as only the application will be running, and applications spend nearly all of their time just waiting for input, so it won't take hardly any processor resources; and finally, only the program's inner workings will run under emulation. This is exciting!

    And screw Windows, SP2 and all... That OS is so full of vulnerabilities and bugs that it's not even funny anymore. Microsoft just patches upon fix forever. Their code probably contains functions 1000 lines long that have indents going so far to the right that they're voting Republican and attacking the Middle East for cheap oil, which keeps going up anyway. (Proof, as much as I hate to admit it, that Bush didn't lie about Iraq, 'cuz if he did, Gas would cost fifty cents a gallon by now. I hate to admit it, but I was wrong about him.)

    Yeah. Windows sucks.