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Another Critical Windows Flaw Found
MSNBC ^
| 07/24/03
| David Becker
Posted on 07/24/2003 8:19:56 AM PDT by Salo
July 23 — Microsoft issued another passel of warnings about security holes Wednesday, including a “critical” flaw affecting most Windows PCs. The most serious of the flaws involves DirectX, a library of graphics and multimedia programming instructions used by most PC games, and could allow malicious users to run code of their choice on a vulnerable PC.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: allyourflaws; arebelongtous; mircosoft; secuity; technical
The patch is out. Get busy.
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posted on
07/24/2003 8:19:57 AM PDT
by
Salo
To: Admin Moderator
Sorry, the article is too short to excerpt.
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posted on
07/24/2003 8:20:43 AM PDT
by
Salo
To: rdb3; Bush2000; Dominic Harr
Pinging the Penguin Pinger.
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posted on
07/24/2003 8:21:24 AM PDT
by
Salo
To: Salo
This type of thing is exactly why I refuse to enable those functions on my 'puter. I can't see how a 10MB operating system can possibly be freed from bugs which might allow unintended access. When you allow an outside programmer to do things with your machine, you run major risks. Maybe someday these problems can be assured to be fixed, but I believe that day is a long time from here and now.
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posted on
07/24/2003 8:30:27 AM PDT
by
AFPhys
(((PRAYING for: President Bush & advisors, troops & families, Americans)))
To: Salo
The DirectX fix was posted yesterday at Windows Update.
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posted on
07/24/2003 8:35:38 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Salo
What happens...when you hit F2 and Alt at the same time, you buy an option on 100 shares of MSFT?
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posted on
07/24/2003 8:36:40 AM PDT
by
ken5050
(ann coulter NEEDS to have kids ASAP....her gene pool has to be passed on.....any volunteers?)
To: ken5050
It runs arbitrary code on your machine - not substantially different than the way Windows normally works. :-)
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posted on
07/24/2003 8:39:40 AM PDT
by
Salo
To: Salo
The patch is out. Get busy.
Not me. Every time I have downloaded MS updates....my puter gets VERY very sick. I'll pass (as recommended by the last tech I spoke to at Compaq).
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posted on
07/24/2003 8:44:21 AM PDT
by
justshe
(Educate....not Denigrate !)
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