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Businesses Urged To Use Unofficial Windows Patch

Posted by Zonk on from the quick-quick dept.

frankie writes "ZDNet is reporting on the latest dire pronouncements about the WMF vulnerability. The problem is so serious that security experts are urging IT firms to use the unofficial patch. Microsoft's current goal is to release the update on Tuesday." From the ZDNet article: "This is a very unusual situation -- we've never done this before. We trust Ilfak, and we know his patch works. We've confirmed the binary does what the source code said it does. We've installed the patch on 500 F-Secure computers, and have recommended all of our customers do the same. The businesses who have installed the patch have said it's highly successful" It's big enough that even mainstream media is covering the flaw.

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  1. Re:Does MS view this as important? by croddy · · Score: 4, Funny

    This'd be a hell of a lot easier if they'd just give over the source code already.

  2. Re:Does MS view this as important? by chrish · · Score: 5, Funny

    Presumably they do some sort of testing with their patches before they release...

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  3. This is slashdot, wheres the pictures? by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its ok, I found th...!&^!")NO CARRIER

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    1. Re:This is slashdot, wheres the pictures? by TheHawke · · Score: 5, Funny

      No Spot! Don't Chew on the power*ZAP!* %^@!NO TERRIER.

      Sorry, had to do that. ^.^

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  4. Re:MS has to test very extensively by greysky · · Score: 4, Funny

    Our commitment is to protect all customers in all languages on all supported products at the same time, so it becomes a huge undertaking.

    So in other words, we won't release a cure for cancer until we have cures for all other diseases as well.

  5. That's great, it starts with... by rcw-work · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...zero-day
    SETABORTPROC Escape
    Linux geeks are not afraid.

    IDS, thanks for playin'
    Unofficial patch burn
    World serves its own needs
    Dummy serve your own needs.

    Feed the news from ISC,
    Go insane
    The blogs all start to clatter
    With fear fight down height.

    Wire is on fire
    On a new years' holiday
    And the mafia for hire
    At a pharma site.

    Tuesday now it's coming in
    A hurry with the worries
    breathing down your neck.

    Team by team the coders baffled,
    trumped, tethered cropped.
    Feature? That's insane!

    Fine, then. Uh oh,
    A week 'till it's released to you
    But it'll do

    Unregister a DLL
    World serves its own needs,
    Patch this at your own speed
    Crummy packet capture
    And it's never quite
    Right, right.

    Admin now an alcoholic
    Can't take bright light
    Feeling pretty tired.

    It's the end of the world as we know it.
    It's the end of the world as we know it.
    It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

  6. someone alert gw bush by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Funny

    they found the Weapon of Mass Frustration

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  7. Re:The issue was actually a feature... by wo1verin3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    When can I expect a patch for Windows for Workgroups 3.11?