Comments on: Attack code out for 'critical' Windows flaw

Code crashes vulnerable computers by taking advantage of a flaw for which Microsoft provided a fix in October.

[zaznet]

Flaws from October

While this will hit many customers of windows the true vulnerable systems are those that are either not managed or not licensed.

The patches from November should already be applied to most corporate systems and any home system that uses the automatic updates feature.

[Michael Grogan]

Easily said

But the fact is M$ patches are getting to be worse than the security flaws they address. The second poatch after that one left my computer glitchy as hell and has blocked my AV software entirely. By the way, even unlicensed versions of xp can still use the automatic update feature.

Heh...

If Microsoft made at least a feasable attempt to find these problems before they happened, the programs they make wouldnt be so easy to destroy. Take the X-box 360 for instance; it already has lock-up problems with the main console, so now everybody who bit teeth to get one has to send it back for reprogramming.