M$ software engineer with extension cord.
Posted on 02/03/2005 1:53:24 PM PST by Eagle9
Microsoft on Thursday gave early warning that next week's monthly dose of security bulletins and patches will be among its biggest ever.
According to the Advance Notification service, which pre-announces upcoming patches but limits the information disclosed, next Tuesday's roundup will include 13 security bulletins, at least three of which will be marked "Critical," the Redmond, Wash.-based developer's most dire warning.
Nine of the bulletins affect Microsoft Windows. That's a much-higher-than-normal number, and three times what the company published in January.
Other patches will be published to fix bugs in SharePoint Services, Microsoft Office, the .Net Framework, Visual Studio, Windows Media Player, and MSN Messenger.
Microsoft has several unresolved vulnerabilities, according to security researchers, who have noted problems in Windows XP SP2's buffer overflow defense, and continued weaknesses in Internet Explorer.
The patches will be posted on Microsoft's security Web site on February 8, and be available for downloading from the Windows Update service that same day.
ms CAN say, 'we are the champions...no time for pip-squeek whiners...who have less than 5% of the market'
LMBO!
That's rich.
All of your OS holes will be patched next week. < /sarcasm>
LOL
I have to buy a new PC later this year and I have been giving serious thought to buying a Mac. Stuff like this is pushing me in the Apple camp.
I'll make an early prediction that these 13 patches will wreak havoc on some systems...just an educated guess, based on history.
For those of you who haven't taken the time to download another browser[1][2], now's the time before IE breaks.
[1] http://www.opera.com/download/
[2] http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
M$ software engineer with extension cord.
Patches? I guess we need some stinkin' patches.
So why is this a big deal? I get updates and patches every month for my FreeBSD and Gentoo servers. More updates and patches than for my XP SP2 machines. Actually I think I figured it out. Less patches from Microsoft means they aren't working hard enough, more patches from Microsoft means it's broken. Either way Microsoft loses eh? Where's that leave FreeBSD and Gentoo? Must be broken if I keep patching them. ;-)
Uh, I hate to tell you this but.....
Included in all ms patches are those cd keys/codes that ms has found to be pirated and will be excluded from being activated.
They'll install ok but won't activate.
In other words, all of the three pages of pirated cd keys/codes you have are worthless.
Most of the "patches" that ms puts on their site is to disallow some cd keys/codes.
I used to have 8-15 instances of spyware a day before switching to Firefox. The number immediately went to zero. The other day, I opened up IE because a video file I wanted to hear wouldn't play on Firefox. I was on less than 5 minutes. Took that long to get zapped with 14 cases of malware, along with a Trojan called 17.H which I'm still trying to get rid of--and that's with daily updates and scans of my AV and Adaware/Spybot S & D, and my firewall (Outpost) running constantly as well.
I hate, hate, hate IE. If only Mozilla would fix the issues with Quicktime and other apps that have problems on Firefox. I'm sure they will soon. Other than that, it's just about as perfect as an OS can get.
That means nothing, if you have them, they have them.. Thats what happened during SP2 before the crack came out, they entered every code out there...but they said they are doing something different this time. They will just take every install code and enter into a used database and that will make your pages useless.
Aye i know that, but some are on the bottom (I had a friend with a dell with that) most people dont look on the bottom of there computer hehe. I bought a very hot Alienware laptop.. i couldnt find the tag for the life of me.. low and behold it was on the bottom.. didnt even notice.
The bottom of my dell laptop looks scorched!....but I could still read the numbers....
now if they required Win98 registrations at work, we would be toast
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