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Topic: UPDATE YOUR PC WITH LATEST MICROSOFT UPDATE !!!

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Hello my friends,

Since yesterday evening, there is a new patch from microsoft that you should install.
This is an extra update from Microsoft.
Go to internet explorer, go to tools and choose windows update.
Install and reboot.


Take this serious !!!


Best regards,


DjAnthony
 
Posted Thu 18 Dec 08 @ 1:37 am
You should provide more info like which OS are you referring to and what it is for?
I still advice users to use only MAJOR updates like Service Packs for Windows.
 



Microsoft issuing emergency fix for browser flaw
December 17, 2008

Microsoft issuing emergency fix for browser flaw

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft is taking the unusual step of issuing an emergency fix for a security hole in its Internet Explorer software that has exposed millions of users to having their computers taken over by hackers.

The “zero-day” vulnerability, which came to light last week, allows criminals to take over victims’ machines simply by steering them to infected Web sites; users don’t have to download anything for their computers to get infected, which makes the flaw in Internet Explorer’s programming code so dangerous. Internet Explorer is the world’s most widely used Web browser.

Microsoft said it plans to ship a security update, rated “critical,” for the browser on Wednesday. People with the Windows Update feature activated on their computers will get the patch automatically.

Thousands of Web sites already have been compromised by criminals looking to exploit the flaw. The bad guys have loaded malicious code onto those sites that automatically infect visitors’ machines if they’re using Internet Explorer and haven’t employed a complicated series of workarounds that Microsoft has suggested.

Microsoft said it has seen attacks targeting the flaw only in Internet Explorer 7, the most widely used version, but has cautioned that all other current editions of the browser are vulnerable.

Microsoft rarely issues security fixes for its software outside of its regular monthly updates. The company last did it in October, and a

Here is the full story from Microsoft.

Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS08-078 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS08-078. The vulnerability addressed is the Pointer Reference Memory Corruption Vulnerability - CVE-2008-4844.

I´m an IT specialist and are updating now 1000 servers.
Because of that I thought that everybody must have this update.

Greetings,

Dj Anthony
 
It's about IE 7. F*** it ;) i am using mozilla or safari ;)

And it was told many times: if you want to mix without problems, do not connect your pc to internet - ever!
 
Well not everybody has the luxury of a second computer.

Thanks for the heads up Anthony.

Secondly, Atomix recommends that people accessing this site use IE to do so.
Other browsers have had some issues in the past.
 
Your welcome mp3jrick
 
mp3jrick wrote :
Secondly, Atomix recommends that people accessing this site use IE to do so.
Other browsers have had some issues in the past.


VanStino recommends people acces this site using Mozilla Firefox.

(RESPECT MY AUTHORITY!!!!! :P)
 
+1 Firefox
 
I dropped Internet Exploder years ago and have been using Mozilla since.
To each his own...
 
mp3jrick wrote :

Secondly, Atomix recommends that people accessing this site use IE to do so.
Other browsers have had some issues in the past.


Still do Rick, Firefox for one, still not 100% right running this site on it.

but I perfer Firefox over I.E. any day
 
Been pretty happy with IE 7 actually.
 
i use FF and no problems with this site ..........

apparently the IT guys are taking this very seriously ....I read yesterday one such saying the patch doesn't work and change browsers unti it's safe to change back .....

I say live a little and switch permanent
 
mp3jrick wrote :
Well not everybody has the luxury of a second computer.


Might I recommend VMWare? http://www.vmware.com/

A friend of mine uses it. He uses it to get on the internet instead of the original OS so if something happens to that OS it's just a virtual one thus leaving his original OS alone.
 
"And it was told many times: if you want to mix without problems, do not connect your pc to internet - ever"

I have three computers that can connect to the internet that are not worth the trouble of trying to sell on e-bay or even a garage sale. In this day and age if you can't afford to have a second computer to use as a "filter" than you may want to stick with analog.

I update Direct X but otherwise I don't have any reason to download security updates.

The result is I don't have video freezes, sound problems be it pops, burps, distortion, stacic, CB or Ham radio interfrencec, Sun Flares, or messages from Mars.

Do the math.
 


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