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This is actually good news according to Microsoft spin.

According to their spokesman, "rather than an indictment of the security of Microsoft's software ... this may actually be a positive sign, with Microsoft reacting to the flaws more rapidly. ... Microsoft is not the worst [because} Oracle only issues patches quarterly."

1 posted on 08/09/2006 11:31:45 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

I updated mine this morning.

No big deal.


2 posted on 08/09/2006 11:32:32 AM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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In other news, Apple still ignores freebsd vulnerabilities but no one cares.
3 posted on 08/09/2006 11:33:40 AM PDT by kinoxi
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Thank God they stopped supporting Windows 98 last month.

Now they have more manpower to fix the holes in Windows 2000 and XP.


4 posted on 08/09/2006 11:47:43 AM PDT by Cheburashka (World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
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M$ likes these flaws and vulnerabilities. This makes the lemmings "migrate" over to Vista


11 posted on 08/09/2006 12:28:29 PM PDT by dennisw (Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
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I was pushed to give up Macs for PCs a few months ago. I was tempted but I didn't give in.

Thank You, God.

39 posted on 08/09/2006 5:25:48 PM PDT by Tribune7
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Be advised that the MS06-040 vulnerability has a public exploit available now through MetaSploit.

Considering that EVERY server and workstation runs the server service by default, every system is vulnerable to this exploit.

MS and some others are saying this has the potential to be a Blaster or possibly a Nimda level of exploit/virus.

46 posted on 08/11/2006 3:38:46 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Islam is a subsingularity memetic perversion : (http://www.orionsarm.com/topics/perversities.html))
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