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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: bwid_s_01 on 22 August 2003, 01:29

Title: And yet another 3 more IE & 1 Windoze securty bugs revealed....*yawn*
Post by: bwid_s_01 on 22 August 2003, 01:29
I must say that each time I read of a new M$ flaw (which is becoming a daily tradition) I can't help but laugh harder and harder.

I really don't remember more than 1 or 2 days this entire summer when at least one M$ bug was not discovered. Horrible!

Microsoft just admitted to 3 more security flaws in Internet Explorer:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=75&ncid=738&e=10&u=/nf/20030821/tc_nf/22135 (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=75&ncid=738&e=10&u=/nf/20030821/tc_nf/22135)

 
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Yet few organizations are likely to apply the patches because they involve desktop software, experts say.


Also most places probably just can't catch up to all the new Microsoft patches. I mean really - one is being released after another daily. First a new bug is discovered. Microshit rushes out a patch. The next day a bug in the patch is found. Now the patch must be patched. The following day a new bug is found and the cycle continues.

The one good thing I see about this besides the Microsoft humiliation is that it's a good opportunity for job growth. I think businesses will soon need to create new positions for "patchers" - employees who would just sit there all day downloading and installing patch after patch after patch. System Administrators have more important things to do.
Title: And yet another 3 more IE & 1 Windoze securty bugs revealed....*yawn*
Post by: raptor on 22 August 2003, 02:05
has linux ever had a worm or virus?
Title: And yet another 3 more IE & 1 Windoze securty bugs revealed....*yawn*
Post by: cahult on 22 August 2003, 02:11
quote:
Originally posted by raptor:
has linux ever had a worm or virus?


I guess he/she who dares to make such a worm or virus will be flogged on the spot.  :D    :D    :D
Title: And yet another 3 more IE & 1 Windoze securty bugs revealed....*yawn*
Post by: jasonlane on 22 August 2003, 02:38
Lion.worm,  
OSF.8759 virus
Slapper
Scalper
Linux.Svat
BoxPoison

They do exist but in far fewer numbers, I mean, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, fewer.

I als suspect they are harder to spread. This however is no time for complacency.
Title: And yet another 3 more IE & 1 Windoze securty bugs revealed....*yawn*
Post by: Faust on 22 August 2003, 07:01
From you know where:
 
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'The Slammer worm penetrated a private computer network at Ohio's Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in January and disabled a safety monitoring system for nearly five hours.'

FFS what kind of company runs Windows in that kind of critical role?  Anyone living in Ohio, I think it's time to tell your representatives that having an unsafe powerplant in your backyard is a Bad Thing.