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Microsoft Plugs a Record 26 Security Holes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the there's-another-one dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft today released ten patches to fix at least 26 separate security holes, including a whopping 16 flaws in Microsoft Office and its constituent apps. According to Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog, this is the most number of patches ever released by Redmond outside of a Windows service pack. Also of note, six of today's updates apply to fully patched Windows XP systems, and two of the flaws are actually present in Windows Vista."

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  1. 26 down... by Ralph+Spoilsport · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    and exactly how many jillions more to go?

    Fixing Windows, doesn't.

    RS

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  2. and this compares with by Timesprout · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the 492 (guess but understated) vulnerabilities in ubuntu

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  3. Could be worse..... by ezratrumpet · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The package could have included IE 7, as was rumored yesterday.

  4. Re:DISASTROUS NEWS ! by menkhaura · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    It took them some time to get it right, but eventually IE took over. Now, you'd have a hard time finding a Microsoft product more complex than Minesweeper or calc.exe that doesn't connect to the Net somehow.


    Does that mean that I can do a File->Open and type in an URL from MS Office and have a remote document right on my screen?*

    *Half trolling, half really wanting to know if I can do this, since I can with KDE for some time now.
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