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Microsoft pushes out Windows patch ahead of time
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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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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.
1 posted on 01/05/2006 12:45:11 PM PST by Gomez
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To: Gomez

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


2 posted on 01/05/2006 12:46:55 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Gomez

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.


3 posted on 01/05/2006 12:47:47 PM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

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


4 posted on 01/05/2006 12:49:15 PM PST by Rakkasan1 (Peace de Resistance! Viva la Paper towels!)
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To: ShadowAce; Ernest_at_the_Beach

ping


5 posted on 01/05/2006 12:49:55 PM PST by JoJo Gunn (Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered. ©)
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To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...

6 posted on 01/05/2006 12:51:45 PM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
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?

7 posted on 01/05/2006 12:54:30 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (What? Me worry?)
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To: Gomez

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


8 posted on 01/05/2006 12:58:25 PM PST by Red Badger (And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him)
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To: VeniVidiVici

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


9 posted on 01/05/2006 12:58:32 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants; Rakkasan1

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


10 posted on 01/05/2006 12:58:44 PM PST by bigfootbob
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To: Blood of Tyrants

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.


11 posted on 01/05/2006 12:58:49 PM PST by 556x45
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To: Gomez
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.

12 posted on 01/05/2006 12:59:15 PM PST by AFreeBird (your mileage may vary)
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To: Gomez

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


13 posted on 01/05/2006 1:04:52 PM PST by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake and Bushbot)
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To: AFreeBird

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


14 posted on 01/05/2006 1:05:29 PM PST by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake and Bushbot)
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To: Gomez

Bump.


15 posted on 01/05/2006 1:06:38 PM PST by Rocko
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To: 556x45
""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."
16 posted on 01/05/2006 1:06:41 PM PST by gondramB (If even once you pay danegeld then you never get rid of the Dane.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

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


17 posted on 01/05/2006 1:08:42 PM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: Blood of Tyrants

My thoughts exactly.

This is getting tiresome.


18 posted on 01/05/2006 1:11:17 PM PST by Vinnie
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To: Gomez

How about a Microsoft Windows tourniquet?


19 posted on 01/05/2006 1:15:10 PM PST by TheForceOfOne
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To: Red Badger

That would be a metapatch.


20 posted on 01/05/2006 1:16:45 PM PST by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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