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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."
The article text is not well-written. It makes mention of a "Sans," without bothering to identify what Sans is. I assume they don't mean the SANS Institute? Just rubbish, not at all well-edited.
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I have to say that if there was just one Microsoft product that needed patching, IE7 would most certaily be it. I've had numerous clients complain about the absolute incompetency of this browser to do what it is fundamentally made to do - view web pages. Even on my own system I encountered at least one complete crash of IE7 every..single..day that it was installed, not to mention the painfully slow performance of the product. Granted, I didn't do everything in my power to make it stable - was running on default settings when I knew very well I could turn these off and run with the bare minimum of settings - but just the hastle of going to HP web sites and having the content blocked as potentially malicious code or the way the program can't render slashdot comments properly, or most web sites for that matter. urgh. It may be secure, but it doesn't do what I would expect a web browser to do - browse the web. And the browser tab functionality lacked the one feature I have come to expect from tabbed browsing - for the browser to remember what pages I was looking at, so that every time it crashed I didn't have to work out what I was up to. I know this is a big bitch session about the obvious shortcommings of IE7, but come on!! how can you release such an obviously flawed product and neglect to update it a month after its release? On a side note - since removing IE7 from my machine my notebook will now successfully hybernate again. Coincidence?