Businesses Urged To Use Unofficial Windows Patch 374
frankie writes "ZDNet is reporting on the latest dire pronouncements about the WMF vulnerability. The problem is so serious that security experts are urging IT firms to use the unofficial patch. Microsoft's current goal is to release the update on Tuesday." From the ZDNet article: "This is a very unusual situation -- we've never done this before. We trust Ilfak, and we know his patch works. We've confirmed the binary does what the source code said it does. We've installed the patch on 500 F-Secure computers, and have recommended all of our customers do the same. The businesses who have installed the patch have said it's highly successful" It's big enough that even mainstream media is covering the flaw.
Re:Does MS view this as important? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Does MS view this as important? (Score:5, Funny)
This is slashdot, wheres the pictures? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Does MS view this as important? (Score:3, Funny)
Gah! Too late! You've been hit by the WMF image virus already!
Oblig. Star Trek (Score:3, Funny)
Let me guess: Tuesday?
investigation? (Score:4, Funny)
Cool - law enforcement is investigating Microsoft? About time!
get a rope!
How to proceed? (Score:3, Funny)
Do I have to install Wine first?
Please help!
Re:MS has to test very extensively (Score:5, Funny)
So in other words, we won't release a cure for cancer until we have cures for all other diseases as well.
Re:This is slashdot, wheres the pictures? (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, had to do that. ^.^
Re:block wmf (Score:2, Funny)
Then: Microsoft sucks because they use file extensions!
Now: Microsoft sucks because they don't use file extentions!
Re:Does MS view this as important? (Score:3, Funny)
If I had invented the unofficial patch (Score:2, Funny)
That's great, it starts with... (Score:5, Funny)
SETABORTPROC Escape
Linux geeks are not afraid.
IDS, thanks for playin'
Unofficial patch burn
World serves its own needs
Dummy serve your own needs.
Feed the news from ISC,
Go insane
The blogs all start to clatter
With fear fight down height.
Wire is on fire
On a new years' holiday
And the mafia for hire
At a pharma site.
Tuesday now it's coming in
A hurry with the worries
breathing down your neck.
Team by team the coders baffled,
trumped, tethered cropped.
Feature? That's insane!
Fine, then. Uh oh,
A week 'till it's released to you
But it'll do
Unregister a DLL
World serves its own needs,
Patch this at your own speed
Crummy packet capture
And it's never quite
Right, right.
Admin now an alcoholic
Can't take bright light
Feeling pretty tired.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
someone alert gw bush (Score:5, Funny)
Good ol' patch Tuesday (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The issue was actually a feature... (Score:5, Funny)