New Crical Updates From Microsoft

[wtfchuck]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1738&e=1&u=/zd/149843

[sfheath]

This link does not work .... shame, I was eager to find out what crical is!

[blutach]

"The Microsoft security train made its scheduled monthly stop on Tuesday, dropping off eight updates to cover 18 vulnerabilities in a range of widely deployed products.

Five of the eight advisories are rated "critical" and Redmond officials are urging customers to apply at least three immediately as high-priority updates.

The top three include fixes for high-risk flaws in Microsoft Corp.'s implementation of the TCP/IP stack; a cumulative patch for the Internet Explorer browser; and a patch for a remote code-execution hole in the enterprise-focused Microsoft Exchange Server.

According to Stephen Toulouse, program manager at the Microsoft Security Response Center, the vulnerabilities discussed in the MS05-019 bulletin present the biggest threat to Microsoft Windows users because a successful exploit could allow a malicious hacker to take complete control of an affected system.

In all, Microsoft is patching five vulnerabilities in the TCP/IP stack, the most serious of which could let an attacker install programs; view, change or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights."

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You need to cut and paste the link for some reason.

Regards

[sfheath]

ah, thanks - that hadn't occured to me .. more coffee, more coffee!!

[blutach]

KB 893066, 893086, 890923, 890859

All set out here.

Regards

[LT. Columbo]

because of these lovely updates my pc reset over night from the auto update feature rec. by microsoft. i had several very important processes running and lost it all.

thanx a million microsoft.

[Enchanter]

I am lucky not to have suffered that way, but I got enough annoyance nevertheless. The darned thing kept asking me (i.e. kicking me out of my games to desktop) to restart the system.

[sfheath]

When I went to shut down mine last night it offerd to install updates before shutting down. I had a short session this morning and it did it again!