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Windows Users, Get Ready For a Bigger-Than-Usual Patch Tuesday
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.
Yeah, my old XP laptop is in the closet, should I pull it out tuesday and let it upgrade?
Google how to make it think it's an ATM and fire it up.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Would these the more, less, or about as impactful as heartbleed and shellshock? What was the time frame between the introduction of the bugs being fixed, the discovery of the bugs being fixed, and the fixes?
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IE 6 should be illegal.
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Windows Users, Get Ready For a Bigger-Than-Usual Patch Tuesday
Not something you expect to hear from a name like Micro Soft.
Once you go Microsoft, you never go back, because lock-in.
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.
Noy unless it's running Windows XP embedded or PoS or Server 2003.
Sounds like everything I don't use in Windows is getting patched.
...as Microsoft patches the shellshock vulnerability in the bash interpreter underlying all of .net :P
Is should not take hours / need to install 150+ updates on fresh systems + the update rollup. It needs to be easier / take less time.
.net updates take time + gigs of ram to install.
yah know ninite can solve that for you (and if you deal with a number of systems Ninite Pro is CHEAP and INCLUDES FLASH)
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Why?
It makes webmasters who charge by the hour very rich
http://saveie6.com/
Windows XP POS? Isn't that being redundant?
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the difference is: when Linux has a critical bug, its front-page news; when Windows has a critical bug, its just another Tuesday.
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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.
It's easier to just copy the latest installer into a flash drive from another machine. If you bake it in with Ninite it will be out of date in one month.
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Chrome and Firefox also have regular updates patching security problems. We just don't get a note about it each month, it just shows up.
Does anyone know of a site or mailing list specifically dedicated to checking out the new updates and rating how safe and reliable they are to install? I've had far too many stability and performance problems after installing recommend updates to trust Microsoft's "Install this update to make {some important but unspecified change} to Windows" messages any more. However, life's too short to keep running a search on every update ID every month to see which ones are getting red flagged.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
I share your pain. What I do is wait a week. Early adopters make good canaries.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
people still use windows ?
Checking our weblogs, I'm still amazed how many people out in the wild are using ie6, and have avoided windows update. Ok, it's only a few % out of the full amount but still a few thousand machines that must be malware heaven.
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I thought Microsoft had dropped all support for Internet Explorer 6 and Windows XP?
If not, they should and force people still stuck on IE6 to upgrade.
Try Windows Secrets Patch Watch http://windowssecrets.com/cate...
Windows Secrets is a great site and the Patch Watch is invaluable in tracking patch conflicts and problems.
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Thanks. I hadn't come across that site before, and it looks useful.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
Even worse, with M$ it's any day of the week. You just have to wait until Tuesday to get a patch--if one even exists.