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Windows patch KB 3139929: When a security update is not a security update
InfoWorld ^
| Mar 9, 2016
| Woody Leonhard
Posted on 03/11/2016 7:02:23 PM PST by Utilizer
If Microsoft's documentation is correct, installing Patch Tuesday's KB 3139929 security update for Internet Explorer also installs a new Windows 10 ad-generating routine called KB 3146449.
Many people -- present company included -- feel that putting an ad generator inside a security patch crosses way over the line. In fact, you have to ask yourself if there are any lines any more.
Microsoft lays it all out in black and white in its inimitable, most obfuscatory way.
This month's MS16-023 security patch for Internet Explorer, KB 3139929, says:
This security update resolves several reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage in Internet Explorer… Additionally, this security update includes several nonsecurity-related fixes for Internet Explorer.
(Excerpt) Read more at infoworld.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: internetexplorer; microsoft; security; win10; windows; windows10
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More 'doze woes, oh noes!
Related links at site.
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posted on
03/11/2016 7:02:23 PM PST
by
Utilizer
To: dayglored
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posted on
03/11/2016 7:07:20 PM PST
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzrims trying to kill them)
To: Utilizer
Hmm. My Windows 10 doesn’t use IE. Does yours?
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posted on
03/11/2016 7:08:27 PM PST
by
sparklite2
( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
To: sparklite2
The update is for Win 7, 8.0 and 8.1.
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posted on
03/11/2016 7:10:34 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." --Samuel Clemens)
To: Utilizer
Linux, the ultimate Windows upgrade.
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posted on
03/11/2016 7:10:37 PM PST
by
taxcontrol
( The GOPe treats the conservative base like slaves by taking their votes and refuses to pay)
To: sparklite2
Don’t have win10, and no IE on any of these Linux machines so that would of necessity be a “no” to either.
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posted on
03/11/2016 7:10:50 PM PST
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzrims trying to kill them)
To: sparklite2
Hmm. My Windows 10 doesn’t use IE. Does yours?
Hmm. My computer doesn’t use Windows 10. Does yours?
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posted on
03/11/2016 7:12:40 PM PST
by
867V309
(It's over. It's over now.)
To: sparklite2
Hmm. My Windows 10 doesn’t use IE. Does yours? It's not for Win10; rather it's designed to apply more pressure on those who refuse to "upgrade" (i.e., install a bunch of call-home spyware) from Win7 or 8.1 to Win10.
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posted on
03/11/2016 7:13:25 PM PST
by
markomalley
(Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
To: sparklite2
That is exactly what I was going to say.
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posted on
03/11/2016 7:13:58 PM PST
by
w1andsodidwe
(TRUMP. YES! Bye Bye Hillary.)
To: taxcontrol
THE LAST Windows update you will need.
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posted on
03/11/2016 7:14:00 PM PST
by
markomalley
(Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
To: Utilizer
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posted on
03/11/2016 7:16:50 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: markomalley
I refuse to use IE or list latest version.
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posted on
03/11/2016 7:16:57 PM PST
by
rstrahan
To: taxcontrol
Which flavor. I am posting from ubuntu. ;-) I code for Doze mostly, but I hate the OS.
To: markomalley
THE LAST Windows update you will need.
So do adobe and office run on lynux (except virtual machine of course.)
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posted on
03/11/2016 7:18:38 PM PST
by
867V309
(It's over. It's over now.)
To: Utilizer
Soon you will not be able to refuse updates.
Wont that be special?
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posted on
03/11/2016 7:29:49 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Utilizer
DAMMIT!!! How do I uninstall???
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posted on
03/11/2016 7:31:38 PM PST
by
null and void
(This is "They live", and most people would rather fight you than put on the glasses...)
To: null and void
To: null and void
If I am remembering correctly, I went into 1) control panel, to 2) updates, to 3) view installed updates and then I removed the known bad ones...
I have a list of “bad kb” that I am now adding this one to.
The others that they still try to slip in with my updates (that also are Windows 10 pushers) are as follows:
KB3035583
KB2952664
KB2976978
KB3021917
I think this last time I also found a way to hide those other ones so I don’t (hopefully) have to do this all over again.
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posted on
03/11/2016 7:44:29 PM PST
by
onemiddleamerican
(FUBO and all your terrorist agencies/buddies)
To: dennisw
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posted on
03/11/2016 7:45:04 PM PST
by
IncPen
(Hey Media: Bias = Layoffs)
To: Inyo-Mono
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posted on
03/11/2016 8:51:51 PM PST
by
relictele
(Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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