__/ [ AB ] on Friday 16 February 2007 05:01 \__
> On 2007-02-15, Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:22:45 +0100, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/933052.mspx
>>>
>>> Not that you windows users may be able to think that patch-day has
>>> resolved your word problems. New ones pop up as quickly as MS tries to
>>> plug the old ones
>>
>> Hey, not a single update for my vista/office 2007 system.
>>
>> Clearly, something has changed.
>
> Yeah? Maybe what's changed is they're taking longer to acknowledge
> problems, and they're taking longer to fix them.
>
> Nah! They've *always* taken a long time to do those things. So I doubt
> anything's changed. More likely they're still playing the first stage
> of their game: denial.
Denial or disinformation even.
New Fronts in Microsoft Security Battle
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| "Patch Tuesday," when Microsoft Corp. releases repairs for problems in its
| software, came and went this week with six critical fixes -- including the
| first one that touches Vista...
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070214/microsoft_security.html?.v=2
Microsoft Issues Word Zero-Day Attack Alert
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| Affected software versions include Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word
| 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft
| Word 2004 for Mac and Microsoft Word 2004 v. X for Mac. The Microsoft
| Works 2004, 2005 and 2006 suites are also affected because they
| include Microsoft Word.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2068786,00.asp
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