Seven security bulletins from MS

LincLinc OwnerDetroit Icrontian
edited July 2004 in Science & Tech
Microsoft just released seven new security bulletins, two of them critical fixes. The company recommends that all Windows users apply the critical updates immediately.
One of the critical bulletins, MS04-023, titled "Vulnerability in HTML Help Could Allow Code Execution," addresses vulnerabilities in the Windows HTML Help system that were reported previously.
Submitted by: csimon

Source: eWeek

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  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    Thanks General and csimon.... See also the post link below, I stuck Microsoft's MSU Alert email in security because it has links to Microsoft's take on this directly in it, the link is to that post. One of the things that eWeek left out, and users might want to know about, is that there is now a killer offered by Microsoft for a Trojan Horse family that Microsoft is calling Backdoor:W32\Berbew. There are eight variants of this trojan that Microsoft's killer can kill. download for the killer is on the newly revised (as of today) download_ject page.

    http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?p=159631#post159631
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    General Keebler wrote:
    ...recommends that all Windows users apply the critical updates immediately.
    Thanks Keebs and John ...this is what caught my eye. Is that common that they sound so deperate?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    Viruses propagate for three reasons:

    1) Microsoft can be insecure.
    2) Virus-writers attack the most common platform.
    3) PEOPLE ARE STUPID AND DON'T UPDATE.

    I think they're trying to help #3.
  • EyesOnlyEyesOnly Sweden New
    edited July 2004
    Well i can't do much about 1 and 2 but i can make sure that 3 doesn't apply to me. That's why i always update.
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