Microsoft: New 'critical' security flaws detected (Reuters/CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

Thursday, April 13, 2006; Posted: 12:16 a.m. EDT (04:16 GMT)

SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) -- Microsoft Corp. Tuesday warned of three "critical" security flaws in its Windows operating system that could allow attackers to take control of a computer.

Microsoft, the world's top software company whose Windows operating system runs on 90 percent of the world's computers, issued patches to fix the problems as part of its monthly security bulletin.

One of the critical vulnerabilities appears in some versions of Internet Explorer that could make it possible for an attacker to use the Web browser to take total control of a PC.

The other two "critical" vulnerabilities were in the Windows operating system.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/04/12/microsoft.security.reut/index.html

Is this a dupe? I can't even tell anymore -- it's like deja vu all over again. "This just in -- Windows still sucks!"

[ClintonTyree]

1. Yeah, this was reported a few weeks ago....

but you're absolutely correct, with "Windows" it seems to be a daily occurrence. There's more holes in "Window's" security than in George Bush's head. Unfortunately, there are no security patches available for Bush's head. We're fucked.

[peacetalksforall]

2. All that money and they still can't afford to pay good testers? n/t