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

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Windows Users, Get Ready For a Bigger-Than-Usua by Teresita · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only time I use IE is just after a clean install, to download Chrome or the Fox, because I don't have the ftp command to do it from a console memorized. And never get your patches on Patch Tuesday. Go get 'em on Thursday after they fix 'em.

  2. Re: IE 6? by gbjbaanb · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the difference is: when Linux has a critical bug, its front-page news; when Windows has a critical bug, its just another Tuesday.