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.
Good thing they don't sell tires.
Firefox anyone?
It's the Bush2000 employment project.
"See? You still need me!"
This is the patch which you have to show proof you are using an unpirated version of windows. All those people that never had to enter a code (EOM Dell system for example) will have to do it now. Going to knock a lot of people offline that threw away there key cards, and also the pirates.
Thanks, but my Opera and Safari work wonderfully.
[FWIW, if I were on a PC, I'd happily test Firefox against Opera and use the best of those two.]
"patches,we don't need no stinkin' patches"
WWW.APPLE.COM
I have never owned an Apple before but tinkered with the new iMac the other day. I am becoming more and more tempted to buy an Apple computer. What a nifty machine!
Just bought a G5 dual processor. No looking back now. I am changing my entire office over to minimac and WYSE termianl servers to work with my MYSEQUEL server. My IT costs were getting out of control and 90% of it was related to spyware and viruses.
Microsoft suckers - run a real operating system - CP/M
ping
he'll call you a "satanist" for that!
I don't have time for my usual Microsoft rant. Is anyone else getting tired of this? I can't begin to imagine what it costs the company I work for.
No virus, no hack computing. I miss it.
13? Ha! More proof that the Illuminati really rules the world! /tinfoil off. (I spent too much time reading THAT Zot thread!)
Nice Example...however the Dell keys are on the case.
Well Windows IS CP/M. Where do you think DOS was copied from?
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