Wrap that w..... er, patch that machine

[unixronin]

For those who haven't seen, the latest Microsoft vulnerabilities have just been disclosed: four updates covering 20 vulnerabilities, 16 of them remotely exploitable, 8 of them rated "Critical" severity, most of them affecting ALL versions of Windows, most of them allowing a skilled hacker to take complete control of the system.

I note that the Outlook Express vulnerability patch goes by Outlook version ..... Hey, Microsoft, I've got a much better idea. How about just letting me REMOVE the festering piece of shit?

Oh yeah.  Don't expect to successfully download these any time soon.  Windows Update is being hammered.

(Thanks to echristo for calling this to my attention.)

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[darthgeek.livejournal.com]

Since I pretty much have to deal with Windows, I have the auto-update featured turned on. Downloads the updates and then prompts me to install them. Thankfully, EDS saw fit to remove the domain policy that prevented people from using Windows Update after whatever Welchia was supposed to fix came around. Fortunately, I'm not on the domain and most of the other contractors aren't either, so, that didn't have much of an impact on me.