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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."
Would I be trolling here if I wondered out loud: Did Microsoft really not find and fix anything with IE7 during the last month that they considered worthy of pushing out with this latest bulletin? Consider that this is the first set of updates since IE7 was pushed out to the whole world and how the inclusion of a patch for IE7 would be met with a jaundiced 'business as usual'. I suppose Microsoft just can't win on this can they?
What a headline... I thought for a second there that they had recalled IE7.
I assume that only security vulnerabilities will be patched in XP's IE7 until Vista is on the same update schedule as XP. These patches will be fashionably late and will only address the most severe issues with the browser, and that simple compatibility glitches will go unanswered. Once Vista is really rolling along there will be more consistency.
FairTax baby!
Yeah, just the shortcuts are removed. Ditto Movie Maker, Messenger, Media Player, IE and probably others.
Actually, IE7's anti-phishing technology is server-based. The judgement of a URL as "phish" or "non-phish" is done completely outside of your browser, outside of your own PC even, so there's no need for heuristic, signature, or filter updates to be pushed to users.
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.
It's official, IE7 is clean. This shows that Microsoft have gotten all of the bugs and there will be no more patches, ever. Uninstall your virus and spyware scanners - they're not needed anymore.
Seriously, has the situation come to a place for Microsoft where a month with no patches for IE is actually news?
Version 7 is clean -- which is welcome news in this first update since the upgrade was pushed to the world last month.
I know you Americans consider "the USA" the same as "the world", but I can assure you that IE7 was NOT pushed out in the Dutch version of Windows XP. It is not even available as an optional package in Windows update.
And I think it is the same in many other countries.
IE7 is not clean: Secunia shows there are 3 unpatched holes:_ 2006
http://secunia.com/product/12366/?task=advisories
does the autoupdater insist on nagging me every 15 minuttes about restarting???? It's so bloody annoying, I know you just updated some of my software, but I'm working so shut the f*** up!
Anyways, you can ask it to bugger off by going to control panel -> administrative tools -> services, find automatic updates, right click and press stop, that will stop it from nagging you about restarting.
Secunia released a new tool last week. You can use this to verify that you have the latest secure versions of software installed, including MS updates. http://secunia.com/software_inspector/
The organization referred to as Sans in this article is the SANS Internet Storm Center found at http://isc.sans.org/ You can find the reference to Black Tuesday and more information on this update at http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1928
So... every single web site you browse is monitored by a Microsoft server? Yipe. I bet DHS _loves_ that "feature". Can you turn it off?
Even sounds a bit like spyware...
[adds another layer to tinfoil hat]
...Rob
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It asks you by default, and gives you the option to disable the feature when it does.
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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