No *wonder* MS stuff gets hacked!

[kengr]

I 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...

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[kengr]

Firefox on my Win2k box will sometime crash (complete with "crash reporter was unable to save a crash file" or some such message) when I try saving a graphics file from a web page. Say what?

And let's not go into the braindead changes in handling of tabs.

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

So try Opera. Or Google Chrome.

[kengr]

Can't synch bookmarks and passwords between the systems with Opera (or at least not without upgrading the OS)

Google chrome won't run on anything older than XP.