New Patch Seems Critical

[Sgt. Starbuck]

http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2008/10/24/emergency-security-patch-issued-by-microsoft/

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[Frank Booth]

/me Facepalms Microsoft.

 

[Bas.B]

Yaiks, do we really need that? I'm not much of techie so I don't really understand what they're saying

 

[Sgt. Starbuck]

Yaiks, do we really need that? I'm not much of techie so I don't really understand what they're saying

They found a weakness in windows XP security so open that they made the patch available immediately. I'm just the messenger. Patch or don't.

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[Bas.B]

Well, doesn't a virus scanner of fw defend the 'breach'?

 

[Sgt. Starbuck]

Well, doesn't a virus scanner of fw defend the 'breach'?

Might. might not.

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[R3POMAN]

WOW infected with no interaction... that makes me nervous lol.

 

[žέяo]

That must of been what I had to DL.

 

[TenGHz]

Thanks for the info. I just had to download a patch a couple nights ago, as did a bunch of people I was playing TF2 with. I imagine it was this one, but I'll double check tonight.

 

[Ma$termind]

Eh, that's why you disable the RPC service on your computer... Then you don't have to worry about stuff like this...

Thanks for the heads up, though.

 

[Chef Ramsey]

Microsoft really needs to tighten up stuff like this with Windows 7. I doubt they will.

 

[sokO]

I'm guessing this is the Service Pack 3 for Windows XP I downloaded a week ago?

 

[Chef Ramsey]

No I believe this is a separate update.

 

[Sgt. Starbuck]

I've been using PC Pitstop for over 10 years and they have NEVER sent me a bulletin. They said that the patch was outside of the regular patch rotation. Just thought I['d share.

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[Morbid #3 -Banned]

http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2008/10/24/emergency-security-patch-issued-by-microsoft/

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Indeed critical update. :O

Turn on automatic updates people