Microsoft Patches 19 Flaws, 6 in Vista

Cheesy Balogna writes "Microsoft has just released seven advisories — all rated critical — with patches for at least 19 vulnerabilities affecting the Windows operating system, the widely deployed Office productivity suite and the dominant Internet Explorer browser. Six of the 19 vulnerabilities affect Windows Vista. 'There are patches for 7 different vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution attacks against Word, Excel and Office. Users of Microsoft Exchange are also urged to pay attention to one of the critical bulletins, which cover 4 different flaws. A cumulative IE update addresses six potentially dangerous bugs. There are the six that apply to IE 7 on Windows Vista. The last bulletin in this month's batch apples to CAPICOM (Cryptographic API Component Object Model) and could also put users at risk of complete system hijack attacks.'"

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Re:Linux patches?

[Khaed]

Almost no one who says "watch my karma burn" or "go ahead, mod me down" actually gets moderated down. It's like some weird reverse psychology thing. At least, this is true if they make a valid point in another way. Despite what all the whiners would like to think, you don't often get moderated down for saying things the moderators don't like. Unless you say them like an idiot, or a troll, or they have less than zero to do with the thread. I've been moderated down overrated/offtopic before and felt it was moderator bias, but it's not very common. (Once, I was moderated down a single time on exactly five posts and feel someone with a grudge just went thread-to-thread moderating me down.)

Moderators are normal users who happen to get mod points. And there are a ton of pro-MS people, or neutral-MS, just like there are anti-MS people here. It strikes me as serious victimitis when people complain that they're going to get moderated down beforehand -- bitch after the moderation is done, not before.

Go ahead, moderate me down as offtopic/overrated. ;)