Yumpin' Yimminy...Microsft released TEN "critical security updates" today

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

I know, I know, I know. Go ahead, Mac users. Rub it in.

TEN updates for Windows XP, Windows Messenger, IE...all BRAND NEW, all flagged "critical security updates"...

So much for the hype surrounding Windows XP SP2 and the "blanket fix" of security flaws.

:grr:

[CatholicEdHead]

1. This will never stop

Eventually, XP will be replaced by a 64bit "Longhorn" system. That will be a "clean slate" of an OS with lots of new holes to plug.

[BikeWriter]

2. So... Do you think we'd be safe if we turned off our PCs?

;(

[Nomad559]

3. They were released

on the 8th.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=2596980


The Mac had a few patches, a couple of weeks ago.

Apple Patches Multiple Bugs In Mac OS X

Jan. 26, 2005

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=57704052

[miss_kitty]

4. so if i still haven't downloaded SP2 do ya think it'll let me get the

new stuff? I'll be surprised if it does...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. I think some releases will be sequential...

...the ten I installed today were unusual in that they all installed at once, one at a time...but that may be due to the fact that I have SP2.

[miss_kitty]

6. hah! I can't even get IE to go there

POS. I have to open the task manager and end task to close out of it.

Boy. Do I hate MS.