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Microsoft patches critical Windows 8 bug

article published on 23 September, 2012

Microsoft has confirmed they have updated Flash in Windows 8, patching a critical bug that was leaving Internet Explorer users open to attacks. On September 11th, the company promised to patch the media player "shortly," doing an about-face from a previous statement in which they said it would be fixed in October. Similar to Google, Microsoft built Flash into the new Internet Explorer ... [ read the full article ]

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_ 		23. September 2012 @ 18:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Seems like ill not get this at least for a year or 18 months till they iron out the flaws. But seeing how this is Microsoft they will patch the OS every month.
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_ 		24. September 2012 @ 07:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This is one of the many reasons why I do not like this operating system
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_ 		24. September 2012 @ 13:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
monolithic kernel.. reboot.. reboot.. reboot.. gaping backdoors open to anybody who can sign malware with an added "system" flag.. same old crap from the company who have never invented ANYTHING.. (still uses the old pc-dos signed bootloader.. which dates from dos2 days when Bill bought it.. and people wonder why it's so easy to shove rootkits into?)
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_ 		28. September 2012 @ 14:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Crimson_Prince:
 This is one of the many reasons why I do not like this operating system

Because MS released a patch promptly instead of waiting another month?

I'm not following your logic, or should I say lack of.
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_ 		30. September 2012 @ 01:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If they're using IE, they deserve to be attacked! :p Firefox is failing of late too. My thing has been chrome lately.
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