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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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  2. 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.

  3. 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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  4. 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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