No *wonder* MS stuff gets hacked!
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kengrI was getting ready to run some security checks on my main system (I had to reboot it because of an annoying Firefox bug anyway)
I'd already run Spybot and Ad-aware on the other two systems the other day.
Spybot updated just fine Adaware came up with this weird error message.
After much digging, I determined (via a lot of googling) that it needed the Visual C redistributable library. So I download it from MS, and install it. And then re-install AdAware. (That's another story, it shouldn't have just errored out like that And It took a lot of reboots and install/uninstall cycles before things worked).
So, a bit ago I check to see how the Spybot run was going. And noted the Windows update icon down on the quicklaunch bar.
I click on it and it a security fix. For the Visual C redistributable library I'd downloaded direct from MS not 4 hours ago!!!
Good grief. What kind of idiots don't have the *patched* version of files up for download???
ETA: And now that the patch has been downloaded, it is taking *forever* to apply. It's been half an hour so far...
I'd already run Spybot and Ad-aware on the other two systems the other day.
Spybot updated just fine Adaware came up with this weird error message.
After much digging, I determined (via a lot of googling) that it needed the Visual C redistributable library. So I download it from MS, and install it. And then re-install AdAware. (That's another story, it shouldn't have just errored out like that And It took a lot of reboots and install/uninstall cycles before things worked).
So, a bit ago I check to see how the Spybot run was going. And noted the Windows update icon down on the quicklaunch bar.
I click on it and it a security fix. For the Visual C redistributable library I'd downloaded direct from MS not 4 hours ago!!!
Good grief. What kind of idiots don't have the *patched* version of files up for download???
ETA: And now that the patch has been downloaded, it is taking *forever* to apply. It's been half an hour so far...
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Date: 2009-09-13 03:14 pm (UTC)I will say that while Apple is better than MS at this they aren't immune. I installed Snow Leopard to days ago, and not only have had three or four updates to apps (though not to the OS) but am still having problems with Firefox. Several times, closing a tab or window has crashed the browser.
Also, if I try to run an .ASX file by double-clicking or using right-click Open, I get a notice that I need to install QuickTime. Doing right-click Open With/QuickTime works fine. QuickTime was one of the apps which updated.
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Date: 2009-09-13 03:17 pm (UTC)And let's not go into the braindead changes in handling of tabs.
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Date: 2009-09-14 05:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-14 07:05 am (UTC)Google chrome won't run on anything older than XP.