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Zero-day WMF flaw underscores patch problems
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-01-12

For four days in January, network administrators and security-savvy home users had a choice: Download and install an unofficial open-source fix for the critical flaw in the Windows Meta File (WMF) format or wait an estimated week for an official patch from Microsoft.

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Re: What Microsoft needs to be doing... 2006-01-13
Matthew Murphy
They're very much customer-driven, just not by the customers you might think. They're "driven" by large corporate customers that think of IT as a non-necessity, a resource. They also have resources to throw behind occasional risk management in the face of a REPORTED zero-day threat. Publicly-know...

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