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June Windows Update To Be Biggest in a Year

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the patch-early-patch-often dept.

Supersonic1425 writes "The BBC reports that this month's security update from Microsoft will be the one of the biggest this year. Nine of the patches are for Windows — one classed as critical — two are for Office and one for the Exchange e-mail server software." From the article: "At least one of the loopholes being patched is already being actively exploited by malicious hackers. ... Microsoft is not only tackling security problems but also the fallout of a legal case that the software giant lost."

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  1. Genuine Advantage to Upgrading by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Come get your Microsoft Genuine Advantage Notification spyware tool updates... hot off the compiler.

  2. Re:Please! by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course it's broken, it's Windows.

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  3. Beware of Microsoft's advice by obender · · Score: 4, Funny
    From TFA:
    On its security blog Microsoft wrote: "We strongly recommend that those of you who are still running these older versions of Windows upgrade to a newer, more secure version
    Well, I folowed their advice and upgraded from 32 bit linux to amd_64 linux. Now I have no Macromedia Flash player and there's no hourly trunk build of Firefox.
  4. Re:Strange Days by Ubergrendle · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I can't think of any of them that have had any sort of virus or spyware disaster in months."

    If that isn't an epic example of foreshadowing, I don't know what is.

    foreshadow: To present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand; presage. ex. see Slasdot post by Anonymous Coward, Tuesday June 13, @08:57AM

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  5. Re:Get your facts straight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    you just can't download nice addons like windows defender, media player etc.

    Cool, how do I get WGA to fail? And will it get rid of IE and Messenger too?

  6. *shakes head?* by Monkeys!!! · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was sitting here wondering why my laptop hadn't started to automatically update....

    Then I realised I was booted into Ubuntu.

    *slinks off into the night*

  7. Re:Get your facts straight... by telchine · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Security updates will still be downloaded if you select "automatic updates", you just can't download nice addons like windows defender"

    You don't class windows defender a security update?

    From Microsoft...

    "Windows Defender is a free program that helps protect your computer against [...] security threats"

    Come on admit it, you thought Windows Defender was Microsoft's version of the popular 1980's arcade game didn't you?

  8. Re:"Mandatory" non-security update bugs me.. by wampus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow, that was inappropriate... that should be big PERSON words.

  9. Typical Macintosh User by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    You, my friend, are one hell of a typical macintosh user

  10. Re:Get your facts straight... by kimvette · · Score: 1, Funny

    kim@kimp4:~> wuauclt.exe /detectnow
    bash: wuauclt.exe: command not found
    kim@kimp4:~>

    Damn it, that just won't work for me!

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  11. Mod parent up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Mod parent up +1 hilarious :D

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