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.'"

Comments

19? Ouch.

[rsilvergun]

So, who's had there boxen killed by this round?

Re:Most secure windows ever!

[Wakko Warner]

i sort of expected some anonymous pussy to post something inflammatory, too.

Re:Changes Default Browser

[Kuciwalker]

I suspect the parent is lying, since it didn't happen to me. I just checked and Firefox is still the default.

Is this news?

[__aahlyu4518]

"Six of the 19 vulnerabilities affect Windows Vista"
So ??? How is this relevant to anyone ? Nobody uses Vista !

Re:Linux patches?

[jafiwam]

I know. It sucks people are always criticizing the father of the master race the great leader Adolf Hitler when they have already done that it's time to move on and talk about the good gun control measures and schooling for kids he had.

There, I just Goodwined your whinny little branch of this thread. Now go away. This is the wrong site for your complaints such as yours. Go spend your time whitewashing the rest of the republican agenda on Digg or something.

Re:Cure the disease and lose the patient

[crabpeople]

It's too bad you weren't paying attention during your installation, in which you were asked to configure automatic updates.

The domain admin configured them.

It's further too bad that you didn't inspect your various settings, instead simply trusting the computer to automatically be configured to do precisely what you want it to.

Settings are locked down with group policy and hidden or unchangeable.

It's also too bad that you don't know how to use autosave, either.

Do you really want to have drafts around of all your mails doubbling space requirements? Moreover that, I just took a look at windows mail and maybe im missing something, but it seems to lack this wonderful autosave feature you are extolling.

Perhaps if you learned how to use your computer, you'd have a better time with it.

Go fuck yourself.

Second, if you're a developer, you'd better fucking know what you're doing

Well maybe thats how it works in your parents basement, but in the real world the developers don't go near operating system patches.