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Microsoft Patches Fix IE, Sony Flaws
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft issued two security updates today, one of which fixes at least four flaws in its Internet Explorer browser, including one for which an exploit was released over Thanksgiving that is now being used by a handful of porn sites to install spyware, etc. According to Washingtonpost.com, the IE patch also removes a component left behind by a patch from Sony BMG designed to remove some of the more dangerous features of anti-piracy software installed by Sony BMG music CDs. Researchers found that the Sony patch changed settings in IE so that any Web site could install software on those machines."
Wow...Microsoft cleaning up after Sony? It's like oil companies issuing nicotine patches to clean up after tobacco companies. The big fight this winter is evil vs. evil. Wooo!
An old-timer with old-timey ideas.
you know, the one which stops the Zonk slashdot article exploit in my /. browser. How do I remove that shit? Permanently...
Microsoft taking responsibility for their own faults and Sony's? I wonder what's up in their boardroom nowadays. Or there could be pigs flying somewhere, I don't know.
Now I can go to porn sites again without having to worry...
You'll be glad to know that, due to the PS3's extensive Wifi capabilities, Sony will be able to install copy protection on every computer in your house the moment the PS3 is powered up. Sony plans to include Linux and OSX exploits for those of you who try to be clever about it. The installed software will cause any computer to crash immediately, which Sony hails as a great technological breakthrough since their last technology, which could only destroy OSX but not Windows or Linux. And as for what happens if you try to copy a Blu-Ray disc...let's just say it's not so much "managed" copy as it is "melted" copy.
This came along with the Automatic Update bundle today:
"Install this update to prevent or resolve an issue in which Windows Update and Automatic Updates can no longer download updates after an Access Violation error occurs when using the Automatic Updates service. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer."
Sweet irony. At least that's refreshing from the attacker that could compromise my computer - I'm really tired of this guy.
How come I *may* have to restart my computer - haven't you tried it on one of your box beforehand or do you really have no clue?
It's yet another article that totally forgets about the upcoming Nintendo Revolution!
Oh, wait... this is a different Microsoft vs. Sony hissy fit?
Of course. God knows MS would never, you know, actually help their customers out.
I am trolling
Too right mate, too bloomin' right. Or something. Too bad neither American English nor English English seems to conform too closely to specification. In reality, we're both speaking a bastard tongue, unless you think chaucer is particularly accessible.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
An article about Microsoft and Sony has been up for 2 hours and only has 75 comments?
This has got to be a first.
I'd just like to point out the fact that Microsoft fixing a 6 month old problem was newsworthy...
And, the gratuitous open-source post:
There was a browser security issue and Sony could install a root-kit? Weird, never even noticed.
"Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed." -C.S. Lewis
> Researchers found that the Sony patch changed settings in IE so
> that any Web site could install software on those machines."
Wait. So, Sony is setting IE back to its default security settings?
That hardly seems newsworthy.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
I think you misspelled "chairs".
That's "stool."
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
No, because no one here uses IE, remember? Where have you been?
Sounds like the security fix I've been hoping for a while