As promised, Microsoft on Tuesday issued nine separate security patches, fixing vulnerabilities in DirectX, Exchange, Internet Explorer, and Windows itself. Three of the fixes were deemed “critical,” four “important,” and two “moderate”.
As promised, Microsoft on Tuesday issued nine separate security patches, fixing vulnerabilities in DirectX, Exchange, Internet Explorer, and Windows itself. Three of the fixes were deemed “critical,” four “important,” and two “moderate”.
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Well, at least they didn’t require a reboot (for me at least) on any of my machines.
Talk amongst yourselves :-).
Needed a reboot here. What I especially love is that it keeps reminding me to reboot if I don’t do that right away. Uhhhh. Oh well.
Hmm…guess it’s environmental then. I was surprised I didn’t have to reboot. And yeah, I hate that damn nagging thing…very annoying. There’s gotta be a reg key we can zap to stop that.
Found it: http://asymptomatic.net/wp/2005/08/11/1879/how-to-disable-that-blas…
That’ll disable the nag screen.
Haha.. patch tuesday has arrived.. my windows machine no longer boots as of this morning..
I crashed a Windows box too! Damn patch days! Let’s get rid of them
Well I suppose it’s nice to see it’s not just me. Guess I’ll wait for the next patch to fix the first patch.
BTW To all the fanboys trying to get a flamewar started. You would have been modded out of existance in the old OSAlert system (TOS violations). What makes you think what your doing is OK under the new system?
Have you Linux/OSX fanboys got nothing else to do rather than belittle everything you do not agree with? Please…
Did you really have to ask that? ;P
Actually sadly enough I use windows all the time (certain programs for classes i need) … thats why i’m bashing it.. because then it patched itself and broke itself now Im stuck on OpenSuse 10.0 which I JUST installed like 2 days before.
I used to use Windows…
Then I learned why these patches will be forever coming.
You fix one thing, it’ll break something else or
it only temporarily resolves the issue.
Their insistance to integrate IE is now biting them in
the ass. Their refusal to start re-doing Windows from
scratch is another. (They want to keep backward
compatibility of the bad design…Now they’re living
with the mess they’ve created.)…And what really made
me mad was their ever growing system requirements with
every consecutive release!
In the end, I’m done with “patch Tuesday”, WGA, Windows
Activation, their lame ass attempts at security. (Which
to them, is a PR exercise, rather than solve actual
problems)…Worse, is their PR/marketing tricks.
(If you think I’m wrong about their security issues,
have a look at why it takes a minimum of 1 month to
be informed to releasing a patch. Have a look at why
some issues are not even fixed at all!)
I use BSD, and if there’s no driver support in there
for a particular hardware I have/use, then I fall back
to Linux. (I also use Solaris if possible).
Basically, I’m down to using anything that isn’t
related to Microsoft in any way. The less you use it,
the less you are reliant on them, the less likelyhood
you’ll be locked in for life.
Anti-Microsoft Fanatics aren’t born because of Windows,
they’re born because of the way Microsoft does things.
Everyone gets fustrated at something…The question is,
are you gonna take it up the ass from a company? Or are
you gonna do something about it and take matters into
your own hands?
I used to use Linux…
Then I learned why these patches will be forever coming. You fix one thing, it’ll break something else or it only temporarily resolves the issue.
Their insistance to integrate patches is now biting them in the ass. Their refusal to start re-doing Linux from scratch is another. (They want to keep backward compatibility of the bad design…Now they’re living with the mess they’ve created.)…And what really made me mad was their ever growing system requirements with every consecutive release!
In the end, I’m done with “patch every day”, their lame ass attempts at security. (Which to them, is a PR exercise, rather than solve actual problems)…Worse, is their PR/marketing tricks.
(If you think I’m wrong about their security issues, have a look at why it takes a minimum of 1 month to be informed to releasing a patch. Have a look at why some issues are not even fixed at all!)
I use BSD, and if there’s no driver support in there for a particular hardware I have/use, then I fall back to Windows. (I also use Mac OS X if possible).
Basically, I’m down to using anything that isn’t related to Linux in any way. The less you use it, the less you are reliant on them, the less likelyhood you’ll be locked in for life.
Anti-Linux Fanatics aren’t born because of Linux, they’re born because of the way Linus does things.
Everyone gets fustrated at something…The question is, are you gonna take it up the ass from a bunch of GNU/Linux zealots? Or are you gonna do something about it and take matters into your own hands?
I know who you are.
You work for Microsoft.
Nice try.
“I used to use Linux…
Then I learned why these patches will be forever coming. You fix one thing, it’ll break something else or it only temporarily resolves the issue. ”
Great rant but I know who you are…
You work for Microsoft and are paid to try and convince people that Linux is bad when it’s way better.
I won’t post your real name here but I know who you are.
Please stop.
P.S. tell your friends to stop too.
“Great rant but I know who you are… You work for Microsoft”
I don’t claim to know who you are, but I can safely say that you are an idiot. My post above was a pun on the post I was responding to showing how easilly such could truthfully be said about damned near *any* software, including Linux.
I am not in any way affiliated with any OS project, and I use a great number of them to varying degrees. I am also (unfortunately) not being paid by Microsoft to bash your favorite toy. Seriously, I’m not that lucky. It’d be a fantastic job to get paid to bash this or that all day on small time forums on topics that only a small percent of the population gives a shit about.
Grow up, get a life, lay off the glue and get a clue you brain-dead hick.
I can’t speak for the OSX fanboys, but us Linux zealots are busy coding right now. Hope your patching day goes well.
windows users that need patches are users that dont know how to use windows. me i dont need any security patches. with third party software my xp box is more secure than ever
Real users hand fix the bugs with a hex editor!
“windows users that need patches are users that dont know how to use windows. me i dont need any security patches. with third party software my xp box is more secure than ever”
And people who really know how to use an operating system know to apply patches on top of any other security mesures they are using. Any hole in your system is bad and no third party program is going to magically fix everything.
Not applying patches, no matter what operating sytsem you are using, is just leaving a big gaping hole in your system that can be exploited.
Eugenia and Thom can support all the MS articles they want, but they are nothing more than indirectly paid MS shills!
I sleep well at night knowing what I do is the right thing to do, how about you?
*TRUE OSS SUPPORTERS DON’T WASTE THEIR TIME @ OSAlert.COM*
Feeding trolls is a job for a soup kitchen, NOT THE TECH MINDED
sorry, but it’s true.
All you Linux craps talking about XP update broke this and that, go get a life. None of you don’t know one thing about computers. Linux is a dead OS, it will be replaced by Windows XP Legit and VLK Pirated copies when Cheap PC’s are bought from walmart and Vista!
I think it’s just the Windows users this time…
“They hate us for our freedoms…”
George W. Bush
XP works…caused no serious problems for me. I dont use the ‘stock’ XP then again so it is a massive improvement. I am ok with it cause I can get my job taken care of using it real quick. Thats all that matters to me. OS usage is a choice but not a choice of preference for me…whatever gets the job done.
Linux is cool. Windows is a good gaming platform (for me) cause I hate consoles. I hated when directx came out cause I knew this would kill any chance games had of being easily ported to Linux, but here we are now, since OpenGL was slow in driving the hardware market with updtaes…it used to lead directx, but as usual, MS created a different set of api’s which, ODDLY enough, run only on windows (until they decide to squash this too due to wanting to push the stupid xbox360).
/rant_off.
“I hated when directx came out cause I knew this would kill any chance games had of being easily ported to Linux”
Oh really? So I guess you’re been using Linux back in ’95-’96? Let me remind you, it was the times when virtually none graphics cards on the market had any sort of HW 3D acceleration
And almost nobody heard anything about Linux back then, let alone Linux gaming 
When OS’s security is compared by these so-called professional groups, they often compare number of patches, or if they are professional enough, number of critical patches limited to a comparable subset of the entire OS.
So, if I forked a BSD, my own company with its own modified BSD OS, called WhateverOS (TM), and I never released any patches, then I’d have the most secure OS in the world according to these so-called professionals.
I can imagine my advertisements in Year 2025:
“Still to this day, no security patches released for the last 20 years! Closest competitor being BSD with its 2 critical patches in the last 20 years!”.
Just sayin’…
I agree with MegaMan absolutely. While it is annoying, patches are the only way we as end users can really allow MS to plug up holes in the software. A lot of people I know believe that updating to sp2 will slow the machine down but little did they know that because they didnt update it 80% of their resources were being used up by spyware and malware. I know XP is not the best OS out there that is why I take every moment to patch up whatever I can when I can.
I agree with MegaMan absolutely. While it is annoying, patches are the only way we as end users can really allow MS to plug up holes in the software. A lot of people I know believe that updating to sp2 will slow the machine down but little did they know that because they didnt update it 80% of their resources were being used up by spyware and malware. I know XP is not the best OS out there that is why I take every moment to patch up whatever I can when I can.
Patches are not security.
Patches are not security.
Patches are not security.
If you need a patch for security, it isn’t secure after the patch either.
No software is perfect, patching is a part of computers.
Have a look here http://security.linux.com/security and you will see gnu/linux has just as many security vulnerabilities.
They reason MS only release patches once a month is to make Windows administrators life easier. Apply all patches at once and then restart the servers / workstations once.
At least, that’s what the MS marketing machine tells me
100% bull!
FACT… Linux/UNIX has FAR, FAR less vulnerabilities than Windows.
And, when there is a vulnerability in Linux, it gets fixed right away, NOT LIKE Microsoft who feels it’s better to deny guilt and put customers at risk for years before a patch is released.
Get the facts!
MS did something they are supposed to do. Do not give them more credit than they deserve.
They issued patches, nothing groundbreaking.
Why don’t we stop using this thread as a poor, poor excuse for a windows vs. linux flamewar (seriously this is the dumbest one I’ve seen in a while) and focus on the real news item here:
that Microsoft didn’t have a “Patch Tuesday” last month even though there were known vulnerabilities. I think the reason was because there weren’t that many of them, so they decided to let them slip to next month.
Last Patch Tuesday (August) initiated the Zotob botnet wars, exploiting the PnP vulnerability before users could patch their systems. I wonder if there will be any worms emerging today?
OpenGL was slow in driving the hardware market with updates
OpenGL was designed well from the very beginning, and the extension mechanism allows IHV’s to expose functionality between major revisions to the core specification. Direct 3D has only just reached OpenGL’s level of functionality, and still lacks an extension mechanism.
Why don’t we stop using this thread as a poor, poor excuse for a windows vs. linux flamewar (seriously this is the dumbest one I’ve seen in a while) and focus on the real news item here:
Since OS News hit it big on Slashdot, I’ve seen a lot of the, previously, interesting discussion replaced with infantile bashing, and I’ve got better things to do than read that. In a dash for ratings, OS News is becoming important only for the headline and link.
Eradicating bugs and being accessible is helping Windows and Microsoft rise to the occasion. I hope their example, however late in the day, enthuses a few more people to follow its lead and do even better, because if you don’t you’ll just end up serving a dumber and eventually dead market.
Whatever happened to the improved security of XP SP2 and 2003 SP1?????
I mean there was maybe a couple months after their release where patches didn’t apply to them. Now every patch that’s released does.
Billions of dollars in R&D spent, their entire product development put on hold – just to save having to install a handful of patches????
Oh but XP SP3/Vista will be the release that solves all our security woes right????
Unix based OS’s would need more updating as well if the number of there users came close to the number of windows users. Most unix based OS flaws simply are not as visible, or get almost no attention. For example, I only connect to the internet using my linux pc with a unix only browser – as a result no web spyware, virus outbreaks yet, not even anything close to harmfull; no one has given any attention to creating anything that targets my system/browser combo.
I didn’t have to reboot either, I guess it’s good to know I’m not the only one out there. I was starting to think they didn’t install or something.
“I didn’t have to reboot either, I guess it’s good to know I’m not the only one out there. I was starting to think they didn’t install or something.”
By all means, share your secrets with us. Why didn’t you have to reboot?
I have two windows boxes: a windows 200o pro at work and a windows xp pro at home. For my case, both need a reboot after applying these patches.
The bad is that the DirectX patch can be done with the windows 2000 box. It will stuck there forever. And I had to press alt-ctl-del to startup task manager to kill the “update” process so that the rest 2 or 3 updates will be applied (I remember there were totally 10 updates and DirectX was the 7th or 6th in the list?). I googled around but found nothing solved my problem. I put security options in internet options to low (almost allow everything, just to apply the DirectX patch) but still no success. I even go microsoft site to download the pacth file and manually run it to install – this again gave me the same thing, it would stuck at “check necessary space” (can’t remember the exact wording now). But I do have enough space in C: (over 4GB free space in C:).
So now I gave up. I read the details of patch and knew the vulnerity would allow remote attacks. But, well…
My system detail: win2k pro with DirectX 9.0c. I usually run everyday work as a power user. I had to do the security update as a computer administrator. Previouskly I could use “RunAs” facility to do the update but this does not work since applying the Windows Genuis Advantage (WGA) update. Additionally the WGA thing also stops me using RunAs adminstrator to apply updates on Windows XP (I login as a limited user for daily usage on Windows XP). So usually I use RunAs to launch windows update, just to check if there are updates available; if yes, I have to logout from my daily account, login as an administrator to update; after done, maybe some reboots, relogin as the daily account to pick up my work. So far I haven’t found a way to update the system without this logout-login-logout/reboot-login process.
I don’t even mention how much effort I spent to make many other programs run correctly when login as non-admin users.
Both machines are dual-boot with linux. On linux I setup daily cron job to patch system and all done. Not a single trouble. What can I say? I am always surprise how many people are trying to defend microsoft when facing challenges from linux users.
Some people may rant now: “go use linux then, why complain if you choose to use windows?” This is actually the most lame excuse to have so may things wrong on windows. There are cases people are forced to use windows. So it is reasonable for windows to be crappy?