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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.
IE 6 should be illegal.
All my liberal friends think I'm a conservative, all my conservative friends think I'm a liberal.
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.
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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Windows XP POS? Isn't that being redundant?
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
the difference is: when Linux has a critical bug, its front-page news; when Windows has a critical bug, its just another Tuesday.
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.