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Microsoft Kills Many Critical Flaws, Some 0-Days, Un-Trusts One Wildcard Cert

Posted by samzenpus on from the protect-ya-neck dept.

An anonymous reader writes: For this December Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released twelve security bulletins, eight of which have been rated critical. Those refer to the cumulative security updates for Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, JScript and VBScript, and updates for Microsoft Windows DNS, Microsoft Graphics Component, Silverlight, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Uniscribe. Microsoft also released a security advisory announcing the removal of a digital certificate from the Certificate Trust list (CTL).

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  1. Win-10 Nag included in the deal? by ackthpt · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I have Windows Update on a pure as-needed basis and glad I do after hearing about the supremely unethical 'Hey! Upgrade to Windows 10! Hey!' nag that came in some updates.

    On another front a friend was having trouble with his boot drive and as we were shutting it down Windows jumped in to install a bunch of updates - that finished corrupting the boot drive and many, many hours were dedicated to recovery and repair.

    I'll give these patches a look but want no shady behavior out of the Redmond Mob.

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    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
    1. Re:Win-10 Nag included in the deal? by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I want to punch the idiot at Microsoft who decided that "shutdown" means "the user can leave the PC running for hours".

      That guy never brought his PC to a LAN gaming session.

    2. Re:Win-10 Nag included in the deal? by gstoddart · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Oh, sorry, Microsoft has decided it is their computer, and you may only use it according to how they see fit.

      They don't give a crap about what you want here, they're just going to automate this stuff to take away all the scary bits.

      Apparently you're not qualified to concern yourself with such things.

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      Lost at C:>. Found at C.
  2. And now that we've un-trusted Microsoft ... by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How can any of us trust that when Microsoft puts out patches they're not also saying "fuck it, while we're here we'll just tinker with a few things and add stuff we've wanted for a while"?

    Microsoft are being such bastards about shoving Windows 10 up our collective asses I'm afraid at this point Microsoft has to be treated as a hostile and un-trusted entity -- they've pretty much decided that furthering their own interests is compatible with the update system which is supposed to provide us security.

    We don't trust you didn't write something horribly insecure, we don't trust that you aren't sneaking something in unrelated to security, and quire frankly we don't trust that you're going to do a good job of fixing these problems.

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    Lost at C:>. Found at C.
  3. Windows Update took about an hour to scan by QuietLagoon · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Windows Update took about an hour to scan for what updates I needed on each of the three PCs I updated yesterday.

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    This extreme slowness is a recent thing, occurring only for the last three four four months. I really takes the fun out of running Windows Update.