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Critical vulnerability for XP and Vista proven "highly exploitable"

The intention here is not to raise the Windows security question or even the Vista security question. I wonder how many IT professionals get the security bulletins and take the Microsoft word as gospel when it rates a flaw. To be fair, Microsoft did rate this as ?Critical? but appeared to soften the impact of that rating by stating that an exploit was ?unlikely.? So, as a busy professional, how would you have read it, and what level of importance would you give it?

I wouldn't leave that sucker unpatched. Also, I think Microsoft needs to speak up about this. Of course, MS expects that all their patches are applied automatically and successfully...
but what if you run a corporate network and aren't going to be pushing updates for another two weeks?

I'm all about the ultimate question (heck, my stapler looks like the inspiration for "Deep Thought" in the movie), but where's Ambassador Kosh?

Hope it isn't a sensitive issue seanfred!

I haven't been back to this thread 'til now, so I missed the question. Haven't had too much time on the 'net recently.



No particular issue with Kosh, I was just using some of the different avatars that I bothered to resize and upload.



Say "Hello" to the guys, Kosh.

nt

Your meth humour here.

Speak to the issue or push off.

Thank you so much!

TiggerTwo,

I have no idea what "meth humor" is.

I an sincerely curious as to why Seanfred changed his avatar from Ambassador Kosh to a reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." I phrased my request with humor because that is my style.

I put "Off Topic" in the title of my post so people would know it was such and could pass it buy and NOT READ IT if they didn't want to. I have not been a member of Tech Republic for long and so I'm not aware of all the rules, yet.

It was not my intention to offend anyone.

On the other hand, I would expect someone who has "Over ten years in IT specifically with an additional 10 of just playing with the toys...", whose father gave them their first pocket protector and taught them RPN, as well as supporting the fight against breast cancer to show a little more compassion toward their fellow man (or woman) especially another geek.

I don't appreciate your snippy post. Show a little restraint and politely inform people when they break the rules.

If you can't be polite, then push off.

Thank you so much!

making sexist remarks; or do I have the wrong phillip? If I do I appologize~

Nope. It wasn't me.

Firstly, it's not my style ('cuz it's just plain rude).

And second, I learned a long time ago that long after your anger subsides, your words continue to waft about the internet and embarass you.

(And yes, if it was me I'd own up to it, hang my head in shame, and ask the moderators to remove my post.)

When was this? I've only been on Tech Republic sisnce November.

-Phil

"Quini, quidi, quici" - I came, I saw, I played a little quidditch.

in November and the controversy started later.(with my brain damage who knows)

I hope you have an enjoyable experience here at Tech Republic; I just assumed you might have some inside joke issue with Tigger. I should shaddap and get out of the way.

But I was missing that neato avatar as well so I just had to jump in I guess.

Happy computing and have a nice day!

installing Patches without testing them for stability or applying the right patch for the correct OS is like allowing the Borg to do your IT support.
There has been plently of times i've been called in to fix an Exchange server that had an untested patch applied. the number of issues thrown up by a win2k patch applied to a win2k3 server. How many people do you know that have installed WGA and had to re-register PC's-servers or mistaken an IE6 security patch for and update to IE7.

Homer may be stupid and make mistakes, but he is also very good at recovery from a disaster like a hero

Methane or meth-m-fettameen?

I AGREE, VERY IMPORTANT TO DOWNLOAD OR PATCH ALL PC'S AND SERVERS MOST IMPORTANT

There would have to be a 24 hour a day hostage situation.Computer manufacturing isn't saying anything.

;even if you are patched; a test is in order. But I'm not going to pay Immunity Inc. money for the test software that is for sure.

When they kept an exploit unpatched for 18 months and raised it's rating from low risk to highly critical over that same time period? and everyone else said it was highly critical from the start?

why would ANYONE trust anything MS says when there is a public record of them lying to their client base?

For what it is worth, i think M$ are and have proven to be untrustworthy and unreliable when it comes to exploits. My two cents-

it is highly important since, you never know what somebody or something might be doing.

Calling something an "unlikely exploit" is just an invitation to hackers. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would give it an 8.