August 9, 2007 12:31 PM PDT
Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday to include nine patches
In a preview of what's to be expected Tuesday, Microsoft said the August Patch Tuesday will include nine patches, six of which it will rate as "critical." The remaining three are considered "important."
The patches will cover the Windows OS, the Microsoft Office suite, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and Windows Virtual PC. Of the six critical patches, one is shared between Windows and Microsoft Office.
It is expected that one or both recent hot fixes to Windows Vista released last week will also be included on Tuesday.
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#2 Pirates get to release a new WGA patch to fix on pirated versions of Windows. While the rest of us who bought Windows will suffer those false positives with the WGA Tray saying it was unable to verify our license and that our copy of Windows is grayware and might be pirated, so they refuse to allow us to update unless we bought a new Windows key.
#3 Get ready for the software that these patches break. I can see IE not working with some web sites as a result of the patches.
#4 Malware writers will release new malware within 48 hours of the patches to infect patched systems and send out email that is a scam, claiming to be from Microsoft, with attachments that claim to be the patches, but are in fact malware.
#5 Watch Commander Spock do the "Happy Dance" and claim that OS/2 Warp is so superior it hasn't been patched since 1998 and doesn't need new patches, except for the eComStation version which needs new patches for new hardware support.
"#2 Pirates get to release a new WGA patch to fix on pirated
versions of Windows. While the rest of us who bought Windows
will suffer those false positives with the WGA Tray saying it was
unable to verify our license and that our copy of Windows is
grayware and might be pirated, so they refuse to allow us to
update unless we bought a new Windows key"
Why do you still fight and mess with that WGA garbage? Do a
Google search for "disable wga", or better yet go straight to the
source - yes, M$ will tell you how to turn off this buggy spyware
killswitch trash:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921914
Personally, I follow that procedure on each and every winblows
pile of trash I get my hands on. To date it has never caused any
problems, unless you want to grab more insecure trash
programs from M$'s website, in which case I can't help you (no
one can, that's what SLAVERY is all about). But what's important
is winblows update still works, as do any installed programs and
non-M$ installers, after removing winblows genuine
DISadvantage.
You got suckered into installing it through the update process.
Don't be such a sucker that you let them trick you into keeping
it, it gives you absolutely NO benefit whatsoever. Maybe one,
when M$ decides to lock you out of your own machine for no
reason whatsoever, you can claim it's out of your control.
:(
- This is to much
- by stonerbychoice August 9, 2007 10:21 PM PDT
- You know I bought a good little computer to play my online games. I bought a good amount of memory, awesome video card and was off. I now have to change out my drives because windows update takes up so much darn room. I am considering switching to a mac. (Never used before)(NEWB) :) But in the end, this is nuts, Shame on you microsoft :(
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