**ANOTHER WARNING.........MS has to put out about 70 patches a year! Wow, I feel great knowing their s/w (ACCESS) is used in our voting machines. And that the feds just gave MS a huge contract to provide computers all throughout the govt!!!
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news-story.asp?date=080103&ID=s1389435&cat=section.businessAnother warning issued about flaw in Microsoft software
Cox News Service
LOS ANGELES -- The Department of Homeland Security has issued an unprecedented second warning to Internet users about a security flaw in Microsoft Corp. software that could leave about 75 percent of the country's computers vulnerable to hacker attacks.
The latest warning comes two weeks after Microsoft issued a bulletin notifying computer users it had discovered a critical flaw in its most common Windows operating systems, including its newest versions, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
The flaw can let hackers use the Internet to seize control of users' machines to steal files, read e-mails and launch wide-scale computer virus and ‘‘worm” attacks that could seriously damage the Internet.
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Last year, Microsoft issued about 70 such patches; so far this year, it has issued nearly 30.
The Department of Homeland Security warned a week ago that computer network managers and others should immediately download and install the latest patches. Its second warning on Wednesday reiterates the urgency.
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