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IE Patch To Fix 57 Vulnerabilities
Billly Gates writes "Microsoft is advising users to stick with other browsers until Tuesday, when 57 patches for Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, 9, and even 10 are scheduled. There is no word if this patch is to protect IE from the 50+ Java exploits that were patched last week or the new Adobe Flash vulnerabilities. Microsoft has more information here. In semi-related news, IE 10 is almost done for Windows 7 and has a IE10 blocker available for corporations. No word on whether IE 10 will be included as part of the 57 updates."
IE10 bundles Flash, so I guess the flash bugfixes can be related.
But IE does not bundle Java - why would the IE bugfixes be related to the Java bugfixes?
Stop supporting that Microsoft! Stop it now!
"Microsoft is advising users to stick with other browsers until Tuesday"
Ok everybody! go and install Firefox or Chrome!
browsers. Where did you got this information? MS bulletin does not state that and I doubt MS would ever make such recommendation no matter how serious the bug was.
The fact that IE6 is being patched means someone dropped a NS bomb on them (National Security) which is a sure fire way to motivate companies to keep their software secure. I know it's not the favorite company here, but they fought (sometimes dirty) to get where they are. They made it and have to deal with the "now what?" phase. Software monocultures suck no matter who's culture it is.
What I found really interesting is that bulletins 7-9 and 11 are for escalation of privilege whereas the rest are for remote code execution. Which means, it may not have helped much to be logged in as an unprivileged user anyway.
If computers were people, I'd be a misanthrope.
...57 patches for Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, 9, and even 10 are scheduled.
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No word on whether IE 10 will be included as part of the 57 updates.
Did you even read what you wrote?
The submitter got it by misreading the ZDnet article. It was the author of that article (Zack Whittaker) who made the recommendation, not MS.
They are 12 vulnerabilities and 57 patches across all their operating systems. 2 are critical.
microsoft is NOT the ones suggesting people use a different browser, it's zdnet in its article.. you know, one of the tech sites run by the same clueless fucktards that banned the hopper from ces and sodastream from the superbowl.
Yes sir, Mr. Ballmer, I will stay away from all versions of your pathetically flawed browser.
Ever since you let in tons of malware that chewed up my PC causing me to lose a lot of stuff and to do a total reinstall, I have been using Firefox. Not being able to actually uninstall your POS, I at least deleted or hid all its icons so my kids wouldn't use it. We've been problem-free ever since.
"The submitter got it by misreading the ZDnet article. It was the author of that article (Zack Whittaker) who made the recommendation, not MS."
Just as well timothy picked it up in editing. Oh, wait...
"The submitter got it by misreading the ZDnet article. It was the author of that article (Zack Whittaker) who made the recommendation, not MS."
Just as well timothy picked it up in editing. Oh, wait...
Its a Microsoft story -- what is Slashdot going to pick? A summary of an article that communicates the total non-news of a Patch Tuesday, or a hyped-up Anti-Microsoft article that excites their target audience into high levels of self-congratulatory mental masturbation?
Not being able to actually uninstall your POS
Even Microsoft admits that its software is a POS.
But seriously, I've rescued several failed Windows PCs by replacing the OS with Ubuntu. Retraining casual users from Windows to Xubuntu isn't as hard as some people claim.
"excites their target audience into high levels of self-congratulatory mental masturbation?"
Mental? Why would you throw such an extraneous word into that statement?
'Scuse me, I gotta get strokin'!
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
"excites their target audience into high levels of self-congratulatory mental masturbation?"
Mental? Why would you throw such an extraneous word into that statement?
'Scuse me, I gotta get strokin'!
Well, I'm assuming its hard to franticly reply on Slashdot in one window, and surf 4chan in another, with one hand occupied.
First Oracle releases patches for 50 Java vulnerabilities, now Microsoft does better with 57 for IE. Who will be the first to go over 60 in the competition?
In any case, it seems we are doomed as far as security on the Internet goes. Kinda depressing.
Do not tempt Rule 34.
Inheritance is the sincerest form of nepotism.
i didn't realize that Microsoft still supports Internet Explorer 6. Just saying. I tried browsing some websites with IE6 for fun, but IE kept crashing and locking up.
What if they need to use Office, play some random game, use a new piece of hardware
Such a user can buy a copy of Windows to replace the copy on the restore disc or restore partition that he admits having lost. When deciding whether to install Windows or Xubuntu for a family member, I make sure to ask what applications the user most commonly uses, and then I weigh that against whether or not the user has the install media and certificate of authenticity for a supported Windows operating system handy. And by "supported" I mean both whether or not the operating system is compatible with the hardware and how long until the announced end of life. For example, I'd consider Windows XP unsupported because security updates will end in 14 months.
or if the system upgrade leaves the computer in an unbootable state
How is this less likely to happen in an upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista, from Windows Vista to Windows 7, or from Windows 7 to Windows 8, than in an upgrade from (say) Ubuntu 10.04 to Ubuntu 12.04?
At least, I assume that is the prevailing attitude on Slashdot these days? Let's see:
IE Patch to Fix 57 Vulnerabilities .NET Framework. There are not 57 vulnerabilities exclusively in Internet Explorer as the title suggests. We can likely further expect certain vulnerabilities to only be applicable to certain versions of Internet Explorer once the full details are available.
No, as per the linked Security Bulletin Advance Notification a total of 57 vulnerabilities are being fixed across Windows, Internet Explorer, Office & the
Microsoft is advising users to stick with other browsers until Tuesday
Source?
No, as noted above, the vulnerabilities are across a variety of products. Further, 13 "patches" (aka. updates or bulletins if you prefer) are being released as multiple vulnerabilities are often patched in a single update. As per the linked bulletin, there are two bulletin's being released for Internet Explorer, which would typically result in two updates for Internet Explorer for a given Windows installation. Of course, there'll be many different updates released for different versions of IE and architectures (ie. 32-bit/64-bit/etc...) but a given Windows installation shouldn't have more than two applicable to it.
No word on whether IE 10 will be included as part of the 57 updates.
Apart from the explicit reference to Internet Explorer 10 being affected by at least some of these vulnerabilities in the linked MS Advance Notification? Have you tried reading the very articles you post? I'm reliably informed it helps comprehension.
Are the editors trying to set a new record for inaccuracies within a small paragraph of text?
Patches, you say? What about SP2 for Win 7? Other than making us move to Win 8, is there a good reason why I should have to d/l 250+ MB on a clean install? A roll up for .NET 4 would be in order as well...
"...Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam..."
What? Who still uses IE? Not I!
"Microsoft is advising users to stick with other browsers until Tuesday"
I see.
none
57 Varieties - of vulnerability!
Your ad here.
Should make my downloading of Firefox or Chrome a lot safer.
Of course! It was time for them to ketchup to everybody else.
I know of a multi-billion dollar corporation who are currently in the process of transitioning to Google Apps. They are of course open to using other Google products such as Chrome and other non-MS software. This corporation does massive R&D and needs to safeguard their knowledge and data. Apparently Google convinced them their data is safe with them.
Another major corporation with more than 20000 seats have already moved to Google Apps.
Which is kind of reasonable if you compare Google's security and general software engineering competence with that of the average 50-billion-dollar-revenue corporation. Most of the latter have some sort of security operations, but these are generally understaffed, underpaid and overworked. Corners are cut all the time and people are bogged down by crazy one-size-fits-all corporate policies.
Tough times ahead for the shitlobbers of Redmond. How will they spin this ??
Does anyone use IE? Seriously
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/customers/
You will be too confused outside the Microsoft Jail, after having spent half of your life Locked In. So, for your own best, please stay in position for Metal Rod 9.0 which they currently polish in the Advanced Shafting Labs in Redmond. Soon you will feel a big fat piece of metal being shoved up your ass and after the pain has lessened you will have the normal User Experience.
So the Crapware Developers have added some more knobs to IE instead of focusing on doing it right ? An extra airbag instead of fixing the bugs in the breaking system ? Excooolent indeed.
And I see M$ shills now use a gmail address for window dressing.
If you little rodents of Redmond would not have been as nasty in the past, you would not have so many enemies. There would be more goodwill. But as you cannot think of "competition", "coexistence" and "good citizenship", the rest of the world have decided this is a mortal battle and we have to comprehensively destroy you. If we didn't, you would destroy us.
So, die with honor or just die. We don't care about you lowlifes and your crapware.
Because he does not subscribe to the Redmond Propaganda Belief System ? (Such as "only M$ knows how to do office software correctly. Everybody else are wicked apostates who will deny opportunities to your precious little child")
My business partner in China complains I am no longer sharing my entire file system with him. He say it is so inconvenient for him to ask for my permission to read my private emails, photos and latest CAD files. He says that "Ubuntu is a major problem for China's economic development". What should I make out of this ? Up to now my Chinese partners could always read my mind. It was so convenient !!!
You are seriously suggesting Windows users will be less "fucked" than Linux users ? After a few weeks Windows machines in the hands of non-experts will contract malware, spyware, adware and other malicious crap. Often the malicious stuff will fight each other for dominance on the machine.
Linux machines (Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, whatever) will auto-patch themselves and generally run like a clockwork if all drivers are available. Which is nowadays the case for 99,9% of machines in the wild. There are simply NO viruses. No need to run virus-scanners which will consume resources and slow down everything.
Linux application installation and updating is a breeze, as Central Repositories exist for something like ten years now, while M$ just introduces their "app store". Windows is currently a mess of bloated and non-standard updaters, one per application.
So, your post is just that - classic Microsoft propaganda which massages facts until they appear to suggest the opposite of what reality is. Linux is install once, run forever while Windows is a Permanent Nightmare.
Going from LTS x to LTS y is like going from XP to Win 7.
On Ubuntu, you simply save your home directory on an external drive. Then you boot from the new LTS installer CD and overwrite everything. You go to the central package manager, check all software you need in the graphical user interface and have it installed without any more keypresses or mouseclicks.
Then you restore your private files into your fresh home directory. All of that takes about one hour, as you do NOT have to run 17 separate installer programs as you need to do with Windows. No activation, no stupid reboots except for one.