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

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

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    No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  2. 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.
  3. 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?

  4. 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?