Five important fixes in MS December patch batch

The Register ^ | 15 December 2004 | John Leyden

[RaceBannon]

patch bump

[taxed2death]

I did SP02...now my moden connects at a slower 33,000 rate only.


Thanks Micros__k.

[LTCJ]

Windows Firewall in Windows XP SP2 can sometimes interpret the whole Internet to be a local subnet

Oh, you wanted a firewall. We thought you said firestorm.

Sheesh.

[Lazamataz]

First up there's a flaw (MS04-041) in WordPad that potentially allows malicious code to be executed

WordPad???

WORDPAD??!??!

I give up.

[Prime Choice]

We thought you said firestorm.

So how's come we always get nothin' but a sh--storm from Micro$lop? ;o)

[ShadowAce]

I give up.

Try this one instead:

[Ex-Dem]

You still use a modem? Yikes...

[N3WBI3]

Lol, yea I thought that one was great! thank goodness for features..

[Golden Eagle]

All software has security holes. Red Hat announced 5 new ones in their Linux on Monday as well.

http://lwn.net/Alerts/

[ShadowAce]

All software has security holes.

I never claimed otherwise. This post was for informational purposes, so Windows users would know about these patches.

[Golden Eagle]

Don't forget about notifying your Linux buddies of their secuirty holes either, then. They are far from immune, as many on here seem to infer.

[UCANSEE2]

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