Microsoft pushes out Windows patch ahead of time

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[Gomez]

update Microsoft plans to release a fix for a serious security vulnerability in Windows on Thursday, several days before the patch's scheduled delivery.

The company is breaking with its monthly patch cycle because it completed testing of the security update earlier than it anticipated, it said in a note on its Web site. "In addition, Microsoft is releasing the update early in response to strong customer sentiment that the release should be made available as soon as possible," the company said.
The security update, originally scheduled for Tuesday, fixes a vulnerability in the way Windows renders Windows Meta File images. The bug was discovered last week and is increasingly being used in what Microsoft calls "malicious and criminal attacks on computer users."

[Gomez]

The security update will be available at 2 p.m. PST on Thursday with Microsoft security bulletin MS06-001, the first security bulletin of this year, the company said.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I am so sick of Windoze and their crap. I'm going Mac next computer.

[Petronski]

Later, Microsoft plans to debug the patch and issue a service pack fixing all the bugs in the patch which customer complaints will turn up.

[Rakkasan1]

me too. fiddling with updates patches and crap reminds me
of Congress and "tax reform". nothing really gets fixed except their salaries.

[JoJo Gunn]

ping

[ShadowAce]

[VeniVidiVici]

I am so sick of Windoze and their crap. I'm going Mac next computer.

Blah, blah, blah. Talk is cheap. What are you? A man or a Mac?

[Red Badger]

The patch will need a patch........

[Blood of Tyrants]

Ummm, I'm a man. A Mac is a computer.

[bigfootbob]

So would I, but I dread the file transfer and learning curve, I'm busy enough.

[556x45]

I already did. Windows is grossly buggy and poorly engineered and implemented. An entire industry has grown up around Microsoft OS bugs. Its a joke...MS and it's (mostly beta) software products.

[AFreeBird]

Great news.... now when are they going to release the patch for the patch? (sometimes the cure is worse than the disease) Cause you gotta know that they rushed it out the door because of all the bad press (more than usual) they've been getting over this.

I suppose I should boot back into winders and apply it, or maybe I'll just point my Linux based Firefox browser over to the M$ download section and get it for later - if or when I do boot my winders partition again.

[saveliberty]

I patched my pc a few minutes ago. I also updated Office afterwards. It didn't take long.

[saveliberty]

I would be happy to keep you posted and be the virtual guinea pig. :-)

[Rocko]

Bump.

[gondramB]

""Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. lab in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January, 1992."


Probably an urban legend but I read somewhere that Arthur C. Clarke said that if he wrote 2001 a space Odyssey today that instead of "Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. lab in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January, 1992"....

Clarke would have had the computer say "Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I've taken the liberty of removing the Windows operating system."

[stainlessbanner]

Linux like a wigwam. No windows, no gates, apache inside!

[Vinnie]

My thoughts exactly.

This is getting tiresome.

[TheForceOfOne]

How about a Microsoft Windows tourniquet?

[George Smiley]

That would be a metapatch.