RSSVery mild Patch Tuesday ahead from Microsoft
By Scott M. Fulton, III | Published November 6, 2008, 5:47 PM
After a series of critical out-of-band security patches were issued by Microsoft two weeks ago, most of the thunder has been squelched for next Tuesday's regular set: down to one critical and one important patch.
In keeping with Microsoft's current policy, the company no longer releases too detailed information in advance of patches' distribution. For example, if the company were to say too much about interim workarounds, it might give away clues that could make many more machines vulnerable prior to Tuesday.
But this much we do know: The critical patch affects XML Core Services, which is Windows' key library for enabling the interpretation of XML-based files and incorporating XML into applications. Essentially all versions of Windows that use these services, dating back to Windows 2000 SP4, are affected.
The out-of-band patch issued two weeks ago, by comparison, appears to address a far more potentially widespread fault, affecting all modern versions of Windows -- specifically, their applications' ability to place remote procedure calls. BetaNews found evidence of researchers with somewhat less-than-white hats who were openly working on a new set of exploits that fooled what is called the Server service in Windows, though we did not find any "eureka" evidence that anyone's efforts had suddenly succeeded.
Exactly what is the point of these continuing alerts if they come one or two days after they have already been pushed out to clients?
Now, if the articles dealt more with a continuing threat or the internals of such a threat, then it would be worthwhile...
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|Its talking about a patch that was released 2 weeks ago as out of the normal cycle, therefore Tuesday Nov 11th will be mild...
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|Get your patch or watch your computer get taken over by a virus. You guys know the drill.
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|Yes sir. Just be careful, don't download anything stupid. But hey, if your system does get compromised, at least be thankful that it is still far more usable than Mac OSX.
You all know the drill. Test, patch, get stuff done, and thank your lucky stars you aren't locked into an Operating System that limits you instead of unleashes you.
Who would want to be chained to such a limited set of hardware and software anyway?
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|Guys let me just tell you what I meant. Windows has so much market share that's why Apple is so jealous because they can never and will never take so much market share like Windows. Anyway what else can Apple do? I am really a dumb a** to use Mac OS XXX, and I have to continuously update Safari and OS XXX to prevent my computer from viruses.
Besides that I switch to Windows to play games, run application and do my work because games suck on OS XXX and many won't even run because they are designed for Windows and many applications are just not available for OS XXX anyway it really sucks.
But despite that am cool cause I use useless expensive Macs (you know why? cause I have so much money) invented by rotten Apple and guess what they can run Windows :)
Your's truly
Steve Jobs's gay partner
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|"After a series of critical out-of-band security patches"
How much more misleading can you get with that title? Not much, thats for sure. One single out-of-band security patch was released and that was MS08-067/KB958644. There were multiple downloads depending on what version of Windows you were running, but it is a single patch.
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