RSSMicrosoft Updates Flawed IE6 Patch
By Nate Mook | Published August 24, 2006, 4:44 PM
It turns out Microsoft's indefinite postponement of security bulletin MS06-042 only lasted a day. The Redmond company on Thursday released an updated version of the patch that corrects a security vulnerability in IE 6.0 SP1.
The original patch contained a deployment issue, and was later discovered to include another security vulnerability. Microsoft says it ran into a problem with its fix planned for Tuesday on Windows 2000, where IE6 SP1 is primarily used. The delay was unfortunate, said MSRC's Mike Reavey, but necessary. "We are now urging IE 6.0 SP1 customers to go ahead and deploy this revised update as soon as possible."
If you're on SP1 you have problems anyway. Why complain about updates when you don't apply them in a reasonable fashion?
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|ITA. SP2 has been out for ages. Even the busiest, most cautious business had enough time to deploy it... Even a single PC at a time...
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|Microsoft is taking the steps to make sure the Programmer who made this mistake has his code reviewed.
But people do make mistakes, but something happened in their internal process, because thats what multiple people before a patch is released is for ( aka Q&A ).
With that said Microsoft is ran by humans, who can make mistakes, but their isn't exactly a story here.
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|QA = Quality Assurance
Q&A = Question and Answer
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|You can all laugh at me all ya want. But, this is exactly what I'm talking about. This IS one of the reasons I will not update any kind of MS software. Updates are a bigger problem than the original problem. In fact....the original problem has been long forgotten and burried under all this useless crap from MS.
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|...the original problem has been long forgotten and burried under all this useless crap from MS.
It was "forgotten" because it was fixed.
And people wonder why they have problems with Windows?
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|If it had been fixed, this discussion would not exist.
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|Ah, sh*t.. so I worried for nothing. Since I'm on XP SP2 (which seems to make my browser IE6 SP2) I wasn't at a potential risk ANYWAY (since last patch Tuesday that is)... I just verified this by going to the MS site and witnessing the re-issue ONLY for XP-SP1 machines... eEye and their propaganda trying to make poor Microsoft look bad fo' not'ing... ;)
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|*yawn* What's the point?
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|There's certainly more point applying a fixed patch than your trolling.
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|Bingo
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|He means why mention THIS patch as opposed to any of the other 100s of patches Microsoft releases...
And of course the answer is because some idiot programmer didn't code it properly, thus there needs to be a patch for the patch.
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|Patchosoft needs a critical fixing.
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|...of your comment? Good question. It's completely useless as far as I can tell.
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