News Microsoft issues three Windows security warnings

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  1. GreatOldOne

    GreatOldOne Wannabe Martian

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    From the Inquirer:

    SOFTWARE FIRM Microsoft issued three warnings about its software that could compromise peoples' personal computers.

    One of them is very serious, a security firm tells the INQ. You should download the second patch immediately. According to Thomas Christensen, at the company, it is easily exploitable by people with not a great deal of technical knowledge.

    Full story with patch download links here

    Quack has already posted something about this over in GN&SD, but it's important enough to warrant another here.
     
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  2. Lord_A

    Lord_A Boom baby!

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    Is this worm / virus month or something? What's going on lately it's getting seriously out of control :worried:
     
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  3. Haddy

    Haddy World Domination

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    Bill probably pissed some of his programmers off and now we all pay....
     
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  4. Spaced_invader

    Spaced_invader What's a Dremel?

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    who hasnt bill pissed off
     
    Spaced_invader, 21 Aug 2003
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  5. Haddy

    Haddy World Domination

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    his banker
     
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  6. Dad

    Dad You talkin to me?

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    Good point ;)
     
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  7. Yo-DUH_87

    Yo-DUH_87 Who you calling tiny?

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    I just had to install the automatic update before I could access windows update. Has anyone else had this problem?

    This just isn't Microsoft's month, is it? What do you want to bet that the department of homeland security moves to something safer like Linux? :D :D

    :nono: :nono: If Microsoft keeps this up...
     
    Yo-DUH_87, 22 Aug 2003
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  8. Spaced_invader

    Spaced_invader What's a Dremel?

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    i just formated, updates everything and now ctrl + alt + del wont stop half my tasks, namelly explorer, which has a known bug, it crashes frequently if your drives are reaching capacity. and one of mine recently failed so had to back thing up somehow.
     
    Spaced_invader, 22 Aug 2003
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