RSSExchange, Windows Fixes on Tap
By Ed Oswald | Published May 4, 2006, 4:16 PM
Microsoft will issue three patches as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday next week, of which at least two have been rated "critical," the company said. It is likely that these patches would fix various code execution flaws.
Two of the patches will be for Windows issues, and the third will be for a flaw in Microsoft's Exchange product. It is believed that one of the Windows fixes could be yet another cumulative security patch for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.
Since the company's last cumulative patch just last month, numerous new vulnerabilities have arisen. Both Secunia and eEye Digital Security list several flaws in IE severe enough to pose a system compromise risk.
Microsoft said that any of the three vulnerabilities may require a restart. The Exchange fix will also repair issues in sending e-mail messages from a mobile device, or from a shared mailbox in Exchange 2000 Server and in Exchange Server 2003 as described in a recent Knowledge Base article.
The company also plans to issue an update to the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, as well as two non-security high-priority updates through Microsoft Update.
"As part of the monthly security bulletin release cycle, Microsoft provides advance notification to our customers on the number of new security updates being released, the products affected, the aggregate maximum severity and information about detection tools relevant to the update," Microsoft said in its advisory.
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(waiting for the monthly comments on vulnerabilities in Microsoft products and we should all switch to Linux!
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|I can't believe how stable and secure Exchange 2003 has been. It has come such a long way since 5.5. I never trusted 5.5 and thought it was awkard ti work with. Ex 2003 has been a pleasure and it just runs. The patches haven been very infrequent for this product.
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|Exchange sucks. I want to switch to Notes, but the other Admins are too lazy to use it..
Yeah it might be stable, but its very lacking..
Calendar and Synchronization are the 2 biggest problems with Exchange. Still not fixed. Outlook is the only APPROVED product to work, its improved, but that too still sucks.
It serves a purpose, email does flow, but Exchange needs an overhaul..
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|I agree. Exchange 2003 is the first Exchange I enjoy working with. WIth the 75GB limit for non-enterprise, Microsoft made the smartest move in a while to get companies to move over.
I still think the DB needs an overhaul, it still uses JET, which is archaic and slow and outdated.
Been running for 9 months now with no issues.
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|I love Notes/Domino but people often mistake it as an email system. Once they do this, Notes is doomed and Exchange will win in a head-to-head mail/calendar comparison.
Notes/Domino on the other hand is a huge, sophisticated devlopment platform. Mail is just one of the apps that run on this platform. Notes had such great promise and is a technically superior piece of software, but people don't understand what it is and what it can do. Combine that with IBM's marketing ineptness and it's a surprise that the product still sells.
Exchange 2003 does NOT suck, but you shouldn't expect it to be an app development platform like Notes/Domino.
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|I dnt think they would make it through if they dont make it open-source!
my view is after milliions of paches like this;we are not going to have a stable os!
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|stop your whinning and just go to linux. windows is design for the mass, and there is no such thing as a bullet proof software. All programmers agree on it, no program is unhackable. users need to take responsbilities on their own action. i have my xp computer running virtually 24/7 and it hasn't crash on me yet. instead blame it on msft, why don't we educate the users more?
when linux has enough market shares, you will see all kind of problems coming. if i am a hacker or virus write, i will target xp because it give me the maximum impact. i don't want to spend my time write a virus take an os with 5% market shares, even if i bring 20% of them down, it's a merely 2% of the market. if i bring 20% of windows down, it's close to 20% of the pc market, and i am sure my virus will make headline..
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|Its not a patch like a bandaid, they are replacement components. A fix comes up, it replaces the previous executables with updates.
If the OS has 5000 executables to make it run, after a major update, there are still 5000 executables, some or most may be changed to the latest version, that's how it works. Its not like a program is running side by side with a patched version after the other version is running..
EVERY company, games, other OS company's AS/400, browsers do it this way, and there are hundreds and hundreds maybe thousands of patches in all of them.. not JUST MS. MS doesn't make as many changes that people think, in comparison to others, many others come out less frequently, but they fix and update ALL the files regardless if it needs a fix or not, so that the version number matches the current patch level.
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|the only thing I want on Tap is a Heineken!
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|lol
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|Have you tried one those nifty 5 liter mini-kegs of Heineken?
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|Is 5 litres enough to be called nifty?
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