Microsoft's delay to patch fuels concerns

Microsoft's delay to patch fuels concerns
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-09-13

Microsoft's decision to cancel a security fix after finding problems with the patch has security experts questioning whether waiting for the fix to come next month might leave them open to attack.

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Microsoft's delay to patch fuels concerns 2005-09-14
Matthew Murphy

The claim of a "row in the community" is seriously overstated. Just because two admins disagree on DShield does not constitute a "row" in any sense.

Maiffret may be a critic of scheduled updates, but he doesn't articulate the reasoning for his dislike of scheduled updates.

The matter of "cust...

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Microsoft's delay to patch fuels concerns 2005-09-14
col_panic

we can't have it both ways. they need to dev the patch and test adequately. time is the cost....

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Microsoft's delay to patch fuels concerns 2005-09-15
Anonymous

""So from a security point of view, we have a hole that is known but not patched.""

When will people learn that holes have been in the software since the software shipped. And that means anyone can find them, someone might inform the vendor. Holes do not come into existance when MS publishes them...

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Microsoft's delay to patch fuels concerns 2005-09-15
The Alpha (1 replies)

"The knowledge that a critical flaw is being left untended"

This is untrue. It is being tended and tested adequetly. I'm sure we would all prefer them to rush it out and down our servers.

"The few details that the software giant has provided--the flaw is a critical bug in Windows and does no...

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Re: Microsoft's delay to patch fuels concerns 2005-09-16
Anonymous

just thought of a comment an old friend once told me

"Everyone knows Everything"

smart people don?t just work at ms they might of already found this patch

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