Comments on: 'Critical' patch for Office coming

Two less serious updates for Windows also will be issued, making it a quiet Patch Tuesday for Microsoft next week.

[Lindy01]

Here is clue.....

everyone turn on Auto-updates....end of story. No more lame articles on news.com.

Where's the "Critical" in the headline?

Where's the obligatory "Critical" in the headline so
http://www.teckmagazine.com/content/view/631/43/
CNET can play on computer terrorism.

[itsallj]

2nd that notion

2nd that.

[john55440]

Here is clue.....

>everyone turn on Auto-updates....end of story.<

Yup.

-Virus/worm-free since 1987, on DOS & Windows computers.

[solomonrex]

slow....except for one huge thing

Their rented music was hacked. Which is a big deal, I would think, since it's the only thing close to an advantage that WMP has on Itunes.

Oh, and Vista has already been patched. I lost the office pool on that one, I thought it would at least be released before it had security problems.

So, a slow September Patch Tuesday, but another bad month for Microsoft.

[extinctone]

Clue? I must have missed something...

>everyone turn on Auto-updates....end of story

Maybe try using a product that is secure to begin with? Count the number of security vulnerabilities in ALL non-MS office products since the dawn of time, you'll find the number less than one single product, MS Office, this year alone.

>Oh, and Vista has already been patched. I lost
>the office pool on that one, I thought it would
>at least be released before it had security
>problems.

I almost can't believe that one...Is it an April Fools joke running late? MS operating systems have built in security issues from the get-go, MS engineers call them "features" put in "by design."

[Mister Winky]

You're Right (Actually, no)

From now on, I vow to only use software that never needs security updates or functional patches. Let's see, that leaves me with...oh, wait...THERE'S NO SUCH THING! No such OSes either.

A problem is identified, a problem is fixed, people go about their lives and business. What's the big deal?

-Mister Winky