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Microsoft patch opens users to attack
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-08-22

UPDATE: Microsoft continued to work on Tuesday to create a fix for an exploitable flaw introduced by the company's latest security update to Internet Explorer.

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Microsoft patch opens users to attack 2006-08-23
TJ (1 replies)
Re: Microsoft patch opens users to attack 2006-08-24
Matthew Murphy (2 replies)
Re: Re: Microsoft patch opens users to attack 2006-08-25
TJ (2 replies)
Mistakes do happen, even with Linux, as this article demonstrates:

Linux update becomes terminal pain

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11409

So, let's ease up a bit on the Microsoft bashing! Besides, you have to give em a little credit for communicating their culpability via these blogs:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/08/22/711402.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/08/22/448689.aspx

Things like this make it hard to deny the double standard that is applied to Microsoft. Thus, I stand by my initial statement.

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