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Microsoft issues its biggest-ever security fix

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- Bobb -

Flightless Bird
Microsoft said four of the new patches -- software updates that write over
glitches -- were of the highest priority and should be deployed immediately
to protect users from potential criminal attacks on the Windows operating
systems.

Microsoft released 16 security patches to address 49 problems in its
products, many of which were discovered by outside researchers who seek out
such vulnerabilities to win cash bounties as well as notoriety for their
technical prowess.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1220677620101012
 
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Pat McRotch

Flightless Bird
Wow! What would we do without you?

"- Bobb -" <bobb@noemail.123> wrote in message
news:i93qes$1jg$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> Microsoft said four of the new patches -- software updates that write over
> glitches -- were of the highest priority and should be deployed
> immediately to protect users from potential criminal attacks on the
> Windows operating systems.
>
> Microsoft released 16 security patches to address 49 problems in its
> products, many of which were discovered by outside researchers who seek
> out such vulnerabilities to win cash bounties as well as notoriety for
> their technical prowess.
> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1220677620101012
>
 
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Nil

Flightless Bird
On 13 Oct 2010, "Pat McRotch" <pat@mcrotch.invalid> wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

> Wow! What would we do without you?


I just love having the news read to me. Maybe he'll read the funnies
out loud next.
 
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LouB

Flightless Bird
Nil wrote:
> On 13 Oct 2010, "Pat McRotch" <pat@mcrotch.invalid> wrote in
> alt.windows7.general:
>
>> Wow! What would we do without you?

>
> I just love having the news read to me. Maybe he'll read the funnies
> out loud next.


The OP posts a little info and both of you add NOTHING.
 
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Steel

Flightless Bird
On 10/13/2010 4:26 AM, - Bobb - wrote:
> Microsoft said four of the new patches -- software updates that write over
> glitches -- were of the highest priority and should be deployed immediately
> to protect users from potential criminal attacks on the Windows operating
> systems.
>
> Microsoft released 16 security patches to address 49 problems in its
> products, many of which were discovered by outside researchers who seek out
> such vulnerabilities to win cash bounties as well as notoriety for their
> technical prowess.
> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1220677620101012
>
>


I think you did good here. It's not your normal behavior I know that. :)
 
K

kerneldebugger

Flightless Bird
+1


"Pat McRotch" <pat@mcrotch.invalid> wrote in message
news:i94aq8$qm1$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> Wow! What would we do without you?
>
> "- Bobb -" <bobb@noemail.123> wrote in message
> news:i93qes$1jg$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>> Microsoft said four of the new patches -- software updates that write
>> over glitches -- were of the highest priority and should be deployed
>> immediately to protect users from potential criminal attacks on the
>> Windows operating systems.
>>
>> Microsoft released 16 security patches to address 49 problems in its
>> products, many of which were discovered by outside researchers who seek
>> out such vulnerabilities to win cash bounties as well as notoriety for
>> their technical prowess.
>> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1220677620101012
>>

>
>
 
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Nil

Flightless Bird
On 13 Oct 2010, LouB <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

> The OP posts a little info and both of you add NOTHING.


As compared to the the fascinating content you added?
 
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Cheng Heng

Flightless Bird
Pat McRotch wrote:
>
> Wow! What would we do without you?
>


Without him you will have a relaxed life without worrying about M$
patches because they should be automatic! This assumes you
actually care about these useless patches!

hth
 
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Pat McRotch

Flightless Bird
"Cheng Heng" <Cheng.Heng@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4CB6186D.EBFD9DD@microsoft.com...
>

Still trolling, I see.
 
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Cheng Heng

Flightless Bird
Pat McRotch wrote:
>


> Still trolling,


Your mummy has finished sucking my cock! What else do you do?
 
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Valorie *~~

Flightless Bird
"- Bobb -" <bobb@noemail.123> wrote in message
news:i93qes$1jg$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> Microsoft said four of the new patches -- software updates that write over
> glitches -- were of the highest priority and should be deployed
> immediately to protect users from potential criminal attacks on the
> Windows operating systems.
>
> Microsoft released 16 security patches to address 49 problems in its
> products, many of which were discovered by outside researchers who seek
> out such vulnerabilities to win cash bounties as well as notoriety for
> their technical prowess.
> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1220677620101012
>



Are these known to stop a PC from seeing it's modem? Suddenly 3 (Vista and
W-7) of our 5 PCs can no longer get online due to not being able to see
their modems. Only the XP PCs can still see their modems.
 
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SC Tom

Flightless Bird
"Valorie *~~" <ValMcl@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:4cb62aff@news.x-privat.org...
> "- Bobb -" <bobb@noemail.123> wrote in message
> news:i93qes$1jg$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>> Microsoft said four of the new patches -- software updates that write
>> over glitches -- were of the highest priority and should be deployed
>> immediately to protect users from potential criminal attacks on the
>> Windows operating systems.
>>
>> Microsoft released 16 security patches to address 49 problems in its
>> products, many of which were discovered by outside researchers who seek
>> out such vulnerabilities to win cash bounties as well as notoriety for
>> their technical prowess.
>> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1220677620101012
>>

>
>
> Are these known to stop a PC from seeing it's modem? Suddenly 3 (Vista
> and W-7) of our 5 PCs can no longer get online due to not being able to
> see their modems. Only the XP PCs can still see their modems.


They didn't bother my Win7 notebook. The modem still works fine.
If you go to Device Manager on one of the three, does the modem show up as
being OK, no yellow or red icon? If you open the modem properties, is there
a diagnostics tab? If so, click on the 'Query Modem' button and see what the
results are.
--
SC Tom
-There's no such thing as TMI when asking for tech support.
 
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Robert Baer

Flightless Bird
- Bobb - wrote:
> Microsoft said four of the new patches -- software updates that write over
> glitches -- were of the highest priority and should be deployed immediately
> to protect users from potential criminal attacks on the Windows operating
> systems.
>
> Microsoft released 16 security patches to address 49 problems in its
> products, many of which were discovered by outside researchers who seek out
> such vulnerabilities to win cash bounties as well as notoriety for their
> technical prowess.
> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1220677620101012
>
>

Well, whatever they do, short of patching to a ZERO byte OS, youall
"R" gonna be hacked, wormed, viriied, botted, trojanized and etceteraed.

And no matter what AV you use, firewalls, etc aint not gonna make
enny diff!

Stxnet, Zeus, etc...
See informationweek.com/analytics/outgunned .
 
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Robert Baer

Flightless Bird
Cheng Heng wrote:
>
> Pat McRotch wrote:
>> Wow! What would we do without you?
>>

>
> Without him you will have a relaxed life without worrying about M$
> patches because they should be automatic! This assumes you
> actually care about these useless patches!
>
> hth

At least you know that they are not useful...in fact sometimes they
are WORSE than not being applied.
NOTHING should be "automatic" - especially M$ "critical" updates.
If you insist, then (1) COPY your HD to a second one, (2) remove 1st
HD and install / boot from second, (3) MANUALLY install that "patch",
(4) test the hell out of it; ask others if there was ANY benefit and how
many NEW glitches created.
You can always pull HD #2 and put HD #1 back in!
 
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Robert Baer

Flightless Bird
SC Tom wrote:
>
> "Valorie *~~" <ValMcl@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:4cb62aff@news.x-privat.org...
>> "- Bobb -" <bobb@noemail.123> wrote in message
>> news:i93qes$1jg$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>> Microsoft said four of the new patches -- software updates that write
>>> over glitches -- were of the highest priority and should be deployed
>>> immediately to protect users from potential criminal attacks on the
>>> Windows operating systems.
>>>
>>> Microsoft released 16 security patches to address 49 problems in its
>>> products, many of which were discovered by outside researchers who
>>> seek out such vulnerabilities to win cash bounties as well as
>>> notoriety for their technical prowess.
>>> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1220677620101012
>>>

>>
>>
>> Are these known to stop a PC from seeing it's modem? Suddenly 3
>> (Vista and W-7) of our 5 PCs can no longer get online due to not being
>> able to see their modems. Only the XP PCs can still see their modems.

>
> They didn't bother my Win7 notebook. The modem still works fine.
> If you go to Device Manager on one of the three, does the modem show up
> as being OK, no yellow or red icon? If you open the modem properties, is
> there a diagnostics tab? If so, click on the 'Query Modem' button and
> see what the results are.

That sequence does not always allow a fix.
Sometimes one needs to do an un-install, disconnect the modem (which
is impossible when integrated as a part of the motherboard) reboot,
doublecheck all modem stuff is gone, and re-install from scratch - first
physical then modem software, then network.
Been there..
 
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Valorie *~~

Flightless Bird
"SC Tom" <sc@tom.net> wrote in message
news:i95bl6$3n1$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>
> "Valorie *~~" <ValMcl@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:4cb62aff@news.x-privat.org...
>> "- Bobb -" <bobb@noemail.123> wrote in message
>> news:i93qes$1jg$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>> Microsoft said four of the new patches -- software updates that write
>>> over glitches -- were of the highest priority and should be deployed
>>> immediately to protect users from potential criminal attacks on the
>>> Windows operating systems.
>>>
>>> Microsoft released 16 security patches to address 49 problems in its
>>> products, many of which were discovered by outside researchers who seek
>>> out such vulnerabilities to win cash bounties as well as notoriety for
>>> their technical prowess.
>>> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1220677620101012
>>>

>>
>>
>> Are these known to stop a PC from seeing it's modem? Suddenly 3 (Vista
>> and W-7) of our 5 PCs can no longer get online due to not being able to
>> see their modems. Only the XP PCs can still see their modems.

>
> They didn't bother my Win7 notebook. The modem still works fine.
> If you go to Device Manager on one of the three, does the modem show up as
> being OK, no yellow or red icon? If you open the modem properties, is
> there a diagnostics tab? If so, click on the 'Query Modem' button and see
> what the results are.


The three PCs can communicate with their Modems but not when we try to add
our dial-up ISP info or try to get online. Suddenly it's says "Windows
cannot detect a modem" or similar words. It makes no sense. We've looked
online but didn't find any solution. This also seems (Googling) to be a
common problem with Vista and W-7. Lots of talk a bout it but no solutions
offered.

It happened to all three PCs (only Vistas and W-7) at the same time.

> --
> SC Tom
> -There's no such thing as TMI when asking for tech support.
>
 
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Tester

Flightless Bird
Robert Baer wrote:

> At least you know that they are not useful...in fact sometimes they
> are WORSE than not being applied.
> NOTHING should be "automatic" - especially M$ "critical" updates.
> If you insist, then (1) COPY your HD to a second one, (2) remove 1st
> HD and install / boot from second, (3) MANUALLY install that "patch",
> (4) test the hell out of it; ask others if there was ANY benefit and how
> many NEW glitches created.
> You can always pull HD #2 and put HD #1 back in!


I have *NOT* installed a single update or patch post SP3 and I don't
feel my system is vulnerable to spywares, hackers, or trojans! My
windows Firewall is setup in such a way that "No exceptions is allowed".
I also don't install any betas or trial softwares.

The only update/upgrade I care about is for MSE and Windows Defender -
the rest are simply added extras which I am not interested in unless
they bring some new functions to Windows or other office applications.

hth
 
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JBieber

Flightless Bird
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:50:14 +0100, Tester <testing@msnews.com> wrote:

>I have *NOT* installed a single update or patch post SP3 and I don't
>feel my system is vulnerable to spywares, hackers, or trojans! My
>windows Firewall is setup in such a way that "No exceptions is allowed".
> I also don't install any betas or trial softwares.


Ignorance is bliss. You seem blissful. Your system is unprotected.
 
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Robert Baer

Flightless Bird
Tester wrote:
>
>
> Robert Baer wrote:
>
>> At least you know that they are not useful...in fact sometimes they
>> are WORSE than not being applied.
>> NOTHING should be "automatic" - especially M$ "critical" updates.
>> If you insist, then (1) COPY your HD to a second one, (2) remove 1st
>> HD and install / boot from second, (3) MANUALLY install that "patch",
>> (4) test the hell out of it; ask others if there was ANY benefit and
>> how many NEW glitches created.
>> You can always pull HD #2 and put HD #1 back in!

>
> I have *NOT* installed a single update or patch post SP3 and I don't
> feel my system is vulnerable to spywares, hackers, or trojans! My
> windows Firewall is setup in such a way that "No exceptions is allowed".
> I also don't install any betas or trial softwares.
>
> The only update/upgrade I care about is for MSE and Windows Defender -
> the rest are simply added extras which I am not interested in unless
> they bring some new functions to Windows or other office applications.
>
> hth

I have had the same policy concerning updates since Win95.
The exceptions were CD versions of SPx where only EVEN numbers are
acceptable candidates (for the "x").
 
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Robert Baer

Flightless Bird
JBieber wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:50:14 +0100, Tester <testing@msnews.com> wrote:
>
>> I have *NOT* installed a single update or patch post SP3 and I don't
>> feel my system is vulnerable to spywares, hackers, or trojans! My
>> windows Firewall is setup in such a way that "No exceptions is allowed".
>> I also don't install any betas or trial softwares.

>
> Ignorance is bliss. You seem blissful. Your system is unprotected.
>
>

I run Win98Se almost exclusively and have had NO problems..all ports
are closed - even without a firewall, and the system is so old that it
does not support root kits, and considered so obsolete that it is
beneath the so-called dignity of malware writers.
 
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