Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for May, 2005

[Gordon Darling]

Microsoft released its May 2005 Security Bulletin affecting Windows 2000
Service Pack 3, Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Microsoft Windows 98,
Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition (SE), and Microsoft Windows Millennium
Edition (ME)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-024 - Vulnerability in Web View Could Allow
Remote Code Execution 894320 -
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS05-024.mspx

Read the bulletin summary -
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-may.mspx

Regards
Gordon

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

Microsoft released its May 2005 Security Bulletin affecting Windows
2000 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Microsoft
Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition (SE), and Microsoft
Windows Millennium Edition (ME)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-024 - Vulnerability in Web View Could
Allow Remote Code Execution 894320 -
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS05-024.mspx

Read the bulletin summary -
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-may.mspx

Yeah - and they left several more serious vulnerabilities until "maybe
next month"...

Meanwhile Firefox had vulnerabilities published Monday - and a patch
today.

And some people think "time to patch" favors Microsoft!

 

[Gordon Darling]

[quoted text muted]

Yeah - and they left several more serious vulnerabilities until "maybe
next month"...

Meanwhile Firefox had vulnerabilities published Monday - and a patch
today.

And some people think "time to patch" favors Microsoft!

Regrettably there are fanatics who will defend vociferously their pet
operating system as the best thing since sliced bread and users of other
Operating Systems as devil worshippers!

All software has bugs. Whatever or OS or programs you use, you need to
keep them up to date. Unfortunately, the "arms race" between the malware
writers/vulnerability exploiters and the software authors gets worse by
the day. "Trusted Computing" anyone?

Regards
Gordon