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Patch Tuesday — IE7 Clean
jginspace writes "As per the advance notification, Microsoft's monthly security bulletin, released yesterday, addressed five general Windows issues and one in Visual Studio. It also included a fix for a problem in Outlook Express for a total of seven updates. As patch Tuesdays go it was fairly unremarkable. The only general Windows update labeled 'critical' is for a flaw in Media Player. As usual, there's a cumulative update for Internet Explorer, but significantly, the only versions of IE affected are 5 and 6. Version 7 is clean — which is welcome news in this first update since the upgrade was pushed to the world last month. Microsoft was silent on the two zero-day Word holes, one reported here and a new one. Sans is calling this 'Black Tuesday' and recommends patches be applied urgently for the Visual Studio and Media Player vulnerabilities. Sans is recommending the Heise Offline Update utility covered in a previous story."
It's good to know, that if they don't release patches, that means IE7 is clean from bugs. I got all comfy and calm now.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
You know the one who claims not to have caught an STD, but you've seen her around the free clinic a few times? You know the one. She has documents that say she has a clean bill of health but somehow you don't think there's a Doctor Fakopsky.
Then of course you go out with her and the next day you know what falls off? We've all had that experience, haven't we?
Oddly enough that sounds exactly like IE7. I'll stick with my hotter girlfriend, Firefox. It's true she might have "enhancements" and she might be a little "slower" but at least she's not sleeping around like IE.
You really want to bring down Open Source, don't you?
There's a reason no-one has done that yet.
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