Posted on 01/05/2006 12:45:10 PM PST by 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."
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Count me in as one who would like to know the results of your trial.
:-)
Absolutely
:-) I assumed that you were trying to be funny.
MAc is also freaking unix. nice ole industrial grade security never hurt anyone.
ping!
Unix is a very powerful tool
I used to be an honorary unix systems admin (LOL!) when it came time to audit unix security. There's a lot of power but it depends on how well and how thoroughly you configure for security.
no, the WMF exploit was a zero day exploit that you cant stop with any existing security measures and it has been in every version of windows since 1990. The WMF exploit lets people run program on your computer when you open a picture any picture from a website, im, email etc.
There is a reason why this is such a big deal. Basically, for the past 16 years, windows has been completely unsafe to use online. The only people who knew were black hat hackers who were using this exploit to break into systems.
Keep your pc, partition the drive, put ubuntu linux (free) and then install vm ware (not free but you can try it for free), and run xp as a virtual box inside linux. It really does eliminate the serious problems. It is like running windoze "inside" another computer. Try it. You will never go back, I promise.
LOL
are you running the ub. browser appliance in vm ? works great for me.
I wish all the people who say, "I'm changing to a Mac", would do it. Then the hackers would go after Macs.
Did you see this?
by default (out of the box) OSX is hardenede with almost every service turned off. It really needs zero administration.
Where do I find Unix?
Start > Control Panel >......then where?
giggle.
LVM
sure and it wouldnt make much of a difference. By your logic, since most servers are linux, linux should have the most viruses.
Me too. Should shore things up at least until the weekend!
LOL! Oh go look for the icon. :D
Or at least tomorrow.
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