Microsoft to release bumper Windows patch

Silicon.com ^ | February 4, 2005 | Karen Said

[bd476]

Microsoft to release bumper Windows patch

February 04 2005
by Karen Said

February's release to fix 'critical' flaws...

"A bumper crop of Microsoft patches will be released next week, including nine fixes for Windows flaws.

At least one of the updates for the Windows operating system is rated "critical", its highest rating, Microsoft said on Thursday in a posting to its TechNet site. The forewarning is part of the company's programme to give regular computer users notice of monthly security bulletins before the patches themselves are released.

There will be 13 updates in total, Microsoft said. That includes a critical flaw affecting Office and Visual Studio, and another critical flaw involving Windows, Windows Media Player and MSN Messenger. Also on the way are a patch for an "important" vulnerability in .Net Framework and a fix for "moderate" problems with SharePoint Services and Office.

Microsoft's security updates have come under the microscope in the past month. Russian experts said they had discovered a way for intruders to get past a protective element of Service Pack 2, and a Romanian security service provider said that a critical patch issued by Microsoft in January did not fix all the problems in the HTML Help ActiveX control in Windows.

The software giant's patch process itself was tapped by attackers, who sent out a fake email purporting to be a Windows security bulletin. The message attempted to persuade people into downloading and installing an attached Trojan horse.

The latest fixes will be released on 8 February, Microsoft said in its posting. The company has set a schedule of sending out security updates on the second Tuesday of each month."

[goldstategop]

Monthly Second Tuesday Windows Updates Alert

Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."

[bd476]

Good idea to update, especially after reading this thread: Somebody from the left has hacked Cyndislist.com.

[bd476]

Ping.

[peyton randolph]

Are these patches beta versions? ;-)

[bd476]

LOL...

[1FASTGLOCK45]

More MS patches? ****YAWNN,, Stretch.... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ***

[bd476]

1FASTGLOCK45 said: "More MS patches? ****YAWNN,, Stretch.... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ***'

LOL, check out the link on this thread above to the thread about hackers getting into Cyndis List. They have cracked into 20,680 possibly all Linux sites since January 16, 2005.

[DainBramage]

There must be a job description at MS called Digital Tape and Bedding.

[1FASTGLOCK45]

I checked out the thread, i was LOL for a bit. "all your senate belong to us" hahaha.

[brewer1516]

I miss my Mac.

[bd476]

Read my post then follow the link within my post. See what a list of 20,680 hacked sites looks like. Enjoy. Post #21

[bd476]

Aww sad to hear it. :(

[Duffboy]

MS Windows is a waste of time. Patches only need more patches to fix problems-then, they aren't fixed at all.
Get Mozillafirefox and stop using Windows.

[Egon]

Ping.

[sd-joe]

You are confused. Windows is an operating system. Firefox is a browser. Two different things.

[bozot]

Yes... but the IE is the main "backdoor" on Windows...

So Firefox is an option...

And as the long courtcase goes, the IE is part of the OS... at least whenyou buy it.

[bozot]

Yes... but the IE is the main "backdoor" on Windows...

So Firefox is an option...

And as the long courtcase goes, the IE is part of the OS... at least whenyou buy it.

[expat_panama]

Until we actually decide to stop paying Microsoft to create and sell us our operating systems, we may as well be happy with the fact that they're doing just what we've hired them to do.

Personally, I'm not to happy about the fact a lot of these so-called 'patches' are just quick-fixes that just cut out some of the IP ports - giving us a smaller 'world' on my www.   I'd gripe, but I'm not about to either forgo the patch or pay an extra say, $300 for a complete rewrite.

Let's face it: we just can't get good help these days.