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Microsoft Preps 7 Patches for Tuesday

By BetaNews Staff, BetaNews

October 5, 2007, 4:00 PM

Microsoft has announced that it will issue seven security bulletins on Tuesday, fixing issues in Windows, Office and Outlook Express. Four of the patches will cover "Critical" vulnerabilities while another three deal with problems rated "Important."

The four critical issues involve remote code execution on Windows and in Office. The Important fixes are for denial of service, spoofing and elevation of privilege flaws. Each month, Microsoft announces details of upcoming patches the week before, but does not go into specifics of what vulnerabilities are covered. Separately, three non-security, high-priority updates will be released Tuesday on Microsoft Update with another being delivered via Windows Update.

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By rsx508

posted Oct 8, 2007 - 2:37 PM

Why is something like forthcoming patches "news" anymore?

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By pitdingo

posted Oct 8, 2007 - 3:33 PM

especially M$ patches

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By welder4

posted Oct 7, 2007 - 6:25 PM

I await the patches, old microsoft works hard at keeping us safe. It is all they can do to keep up with the dings out there who like to spoil every ones fun and use of their computers. It is not Microsoft that is to blame for all the patches it is the hackers who like to ruin things for every one , they need to get a life and leave are computers alone.

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By xyzcb1

posted Oct 8, 2007 - 2:34 PM

Why is it MS to blame to release patches? And it cost you nothing except some bandwidth. Maybe they should start charging just like the other company and maybe user start appreciate more.

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By robmanic44

posted Oct 6, 2007 - 6:59 PM

Seamonkey has a built-in mail client. Unfortunately it currently defaults to AOL. Some choice! Yes, LIVE is the bloated one.

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By deda

posted Oct 6, 2007 - 12:58 PM

English isn't my native idiom.
I think OE it's an old and good option. Basically, security depends on discipline to follow simple rules.

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By Alex Stevens

edited Oct 5, 2007 - 4:12 PM

Why is Outlook Express not dead? They have Live Mail available now, it's 1000 times better than that old bloated corpse from the days of Windows 9x. All they ever do is patch it now, just REMOVE it, or at least give us the option to. Please...

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By alex_sporik

posted Oct 6, 2007 - 11:34 AM

Because Live Mail is pretty much same Outlook Express it might be volnurable too

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By horsecharles

posted Oct 6, 2007 - 12:24 AM

Uhhhhhh, isn't Live the bloated one?

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By frankwick

posted Oct 5, 2007 - 7:20 PM

Why force someone to change? OE, while old, is simple to use and very mature & stable. WLM may have cooler features, but it is still in beta. It won't officially be released until the new year, and then won't be a required upgrade.

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By mjm01010101

posted Oct 5, 2007 - 4:58 PM

Because there are millions of people that use it and MS support costs would skyrocket just by changing the core mail app on their OS? Pretty much every major consumer level ISP uses Outlook express as their main local client and changing that would be rather upsetting to most of them.

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By pitdingo

posted Oct 6, 2007 - 7:59 AM

"Pretty much every major consumer level ISP uses Outlook express as their main local client..."

huh?

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By terminalx

posted Oct 7, 2007 - 3:07 AM

He means that practically every ISP that uses pop3/imap access support OE. Most will not assist with anything else other then provide the user with settings. Any errors and its RTV.

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By wat0114

posted Oct 6, 2007 - 12:38 PM

My thoughts exactly!

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