Windows Users, Get Ready For a Bigger-Than-Usual Patch Tuesday

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 11, 2014 @02:33AM from the why-I-tell-my-mom-no-windows dept.

dibdublin (981416) writes with a report from The Register: October is stacking up to be a bumper Patch Tuesday update with nine bulletins lined up for delivery — three rated critical. Cloud security firm Qualys estimates two of the lesser "important" bulletins are just as bad however, as they would also allow malicious code injection onto vulnerable systems. Top of the critical list is an update for Internet Explorer that affects all currently supported versions 6 to 11, on all operating system including Windows RT. Vulnerabilities discovered in most versions of Windows Server, Windows 7 and 8, and the .NET framework are covered in the other pair of critical bulletins.

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Re: IE 6? by Noah+Haders · 2014-10-11 07:27 · Score: 1, Flamebait

I was thinking about something similar. For windows, what's an "acceptable" number of critical flaw patches? If you really think about it, the only possible answer is zero. Any answer greater than zero must be unacceptable. So why do people put up with it?
A similar topic comes up when people talk about pedestrian deaths. What's an acceptable number of pedestrian deaths in a year? If you're intellectually honest with yourself the only acceptable number can be none.