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Posted on 07/25/2004 4:36:02 PM PDT by Nonesuch
Microsoft notifies certain customers of upcoming security patches as much as five days in advance.
Microsoft will release a new "critical" security patch for the Microsoft Windows operating system on Monday, JUly 26th, 2004.
Microsoft provides advance notice to certain customers of upcoming patch releases. For example, late last week Microsoft sent the following email to Fortune-500 customers:
On MONDAY 26 JULY 2004 the Microsoft Security Response Center is planning to release:- One Microsoft Security Bulletin affecting Microsoft Windows. The greatest maximum severity rating for this security update is Critical. This security update will require a restart. Although we do not anticipate any changes, the number of bulletins, products affected, restart information and severities are subject to change until released. At this time no additional information on these bulletins such as details regarding severity or details regarding the vulnerability will be made available until 26 July 2004.
I have confirmation from two independent sources, each of whom each received this same information, directly from Microsoft (Microsoft PGP-signs security alerts).
I would think that several customers are large enough that they require the advance notice in order to plan the patch rollout. When you need to care for several thousand computers in a large, multi-site corporation, planning is essential.
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Got root?
I figure this could be
I know I have the adware thing that causes pop-ups in IE, even when there are none on the site. I've tried Norton, Spybot, AdAware, CWShredder, but so far no joy at getting rid of it. I just wonder if maybe it's more malicious than just causing pop-ups.
This just started on my machine today. It looks like corruption of the video RAM... closing windows leave artifacts on the desktop; there are little yellow stripes on things where there shouldn't be; fairly quickly after it starts the machine becomes unuseable and I have to reboot it. This on Win2K Professional.If the problem tends to go away with just a reboot and not come back for a while, it is likely to be a software problem.
If the "video corruption" tends to start after the PC has been on for a while, and comes back quickly after a reboot but clears up if turned off for a while, I'd suspect a hardware problem.
I've seen exactly the symptoms you described with an overheating video card. Adding a "slot cooler" exhaust fan in the slot physically directly above the card helped keep the temperature down, and the heat went away.
New MS bulletins appear here first: http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.mspx
There's a rumor MS04-025 will not come out until Tuesday. I doubt the truth of that -- how often has Microsoft slipped a software delivery date in the past? :)
Thans for the headsup.
It's for Outlook Express, 11 minutes if by dialup. No restart required on my machine.
"IE versions 5.01, 5.5. and 6 on multiple Windows platforms are affected so it promises to be a busy day for sysadmins everywhere. Early versions of Microsoft's cumulative patch didn't apply the final release code for XP customers running the latest version of Windows Update. After correcting this, Microsoft reissued its advisory on Sunday. The latest version of the bulletin is here."
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