[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.

[JoJo Gunn]

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[ShadowAce]

[Red Badger]

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

[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.

[Rocko]

Bump.

[TheForceOfOne]

How about a Microsoft Windows tourniquet?

[Billthedrill]

Good to see. They were taking some serious heat from the professional community for using the regular schedule for an emergency patch (the exploits are already fielded, f'Petessake). I sizzled my support engineer yesterday.

Gonna be a busy evening.

[tallhappy]

Here: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-001 Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution (912919)

[SlowBoat407]

ping!

[Lady Jag]

Did you see this?

[Turbopilot]

It's probably moot, as Automatic Update will likely pick it up as soon as it's out there, but does anyone know if it's necessary to use this patch after having used the private patch issued a few days ago?

Also, what's the deal with the claim that this bug has existed since 1990? That would mean a serious security flaw not only went entirely undiscovered for 16 years, but also that it passed through two or three completely different DOS/Windows kernels. That does not sound plausible.

[beckett]

Is it KB912914, the Graphics Rendering patch? I ask because MS doesn't mention WMF in the patch I downloaded and installed. Anybody know?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Newsmaker: Beating Microsoft to the punch ~ Russian authors patch for WMF flaw

[Revolting cat!]

All's well - the patch has been released and Microsoft's two jackabramoffs have been unleashed on FR with their usual lame excuses! Bravo!

[steveo]

It just came up as an automatic download on my computer. I downloaded it and it's working perfeoi jvian rauiogtr iugho soidj fgoiht aoieh9852907-0^&()*3-

[cva66snipe]

Anybody in here over the age of 45 remember when there wasn't a calculator? Anybody remember tube radio's? Rotary phones and long distance was operator assist? Microsoft has taken a Lions share of the risk and done the research that most of us enjoy today. I can think of only 1 product Microsoft should have pulled and that was Windows M.E. I've ran XP for about 3 years now. No crashes, Maybe 1 freeze up. No reformats. Only twice have I even used point restore.

I'm not a techie but I have computers laying around with 95, 98/SE, ME, and XP. Anyone who can't see the difference and improvement in them is blind. All the persons I know who have XP have very few problems with it in general. In short for most persons unless you do a lot of graphics designs etc a MAC is not needed. Yes I even used MS WEB-TV at one point. Use it for a few nights and even 98/SE will be a welcomed site.

I'm not against another company giving MS a run for their money but look at the technology miracle we are using and here we are griping because of a few bugs? No one can build an unexploitable computer or design such an operating system. If someone wants in it bad enough they will find a way. With increasing popularity Linux and other systems will also begin to see hackers looking for weakness in their systems. But virus writers look to infect as many as possible which is the main reason Microsoft is hit the most often.

With any thing you can make the more gadgets you add to it the more problems can happen. I don't use even a third of what XP can do program wise. But I wouldn't have to sit for hours on end learning coding either. If any other system looks better for your needs go for it. But in reality MS in itself is not bad for all it offers.

[kalee]

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