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MS Patch Train Leaves the Station

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the a-whole-lotta-security-going-on dept.

per1176 writes "Microsoft has released 10 advisories to cover a dozen security vulnerabilities, including a "critical" cumulative update for the Internet Explorer browser. The IE fix corrects a remote code-execution vulnerability that exists due to the way the browser handles PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files."

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  1. Forgive my ignorance by J+Barnes · · Score: 4, Funny

    but is there an obvious point where software become more patch then content?

    Lately I envision all Microsoft products as lumbering stay-puff marshmallow men, ambulating labored steps inside a comical suit of band-aids.

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    1. Re:Forgive my ignorance by mph · · Score: 3, Funny
      but is there an obvious point where software become more patch then content?
      Maybe when you change the name of the software to indicate that's the case?
  2. M$ still pwnz Linuts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why not just release a patch that uninstalls IE?

  3. New Microsoft Security Update by PyWiz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft has released a free security update to Windows users today: Service Pack Linux. Service Pack Linux includes a fix for all IE vulnerabilities, as well as flaws in Outlook and Office. IIS users will be happy to know that Service Pack Linux will fix many problems with Microsoft's premier web server package as well. Service Pack Linux is considered the most comprehensive security fix in Windows history. Users should get it now at http://distrowatch.org/

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  4. The NSA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Never needed MSFT to put in a "backdoor" for them, specifically. Christ, they just needed the source-code so they could use all the ones there were already there.

  5. All aboard! by AtariAmarok · · Score: 5, Funny
    "MS Patch Train Leaves the Station"

    Otherwise known as the Bugwarts Express. To find the boarding platform, run your luggage cart full tilt into that blue screen.

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  6. Re:Venture to guess? by Joe+Decker · · Score: 5, Funny
    Check your god damn code

    Using an interjection when you mean a adjectival phrase is an amateur mistake. Check your God-damned grammar.

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  7. Re:Patches don't solve the problem on new installs by SomeGuyFromCA · · Score: 3, Funny

    > 2) Buy a router. £25/$40 buys you a piece of hardware which acts like a firewall and blocks all incoming ports, other than ones you solicit, natch.

    and remember to turn off upnp. otherwise, the following happens:

    <spiritual descendant of back orifice> hey router, this is a upnp request: forward 31337 to this computer, please!
    <router> will do, and you have a good day!
    <sdobo> oh, i will...

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  8. Re:Venture to guess? by Knightfall · · Score: 3, Funny

    Funniest.

    Grammar-Nazi Post.

    EVER.

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