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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Patches Make Pefect
On February 10, 2009 Microsoft released four critical patches that could allow evil-doers to take control of an unpatched computer remotely. The updates affect Internet Explorer 7, Windows XP Professional Edition, Windows Vista, Exchange 2000 Server, Exchange Server 2003 and 2007, SQL Server 2000 and 2005 and Office Visio 2002, 2003 and 2007.
The best part of his was the Security Bulletin (MS09-002) that accompanied the patches that stated, "Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights,"
Since probably 90% of folks running any flavour or Windows run as an Administrator most people are at risk here.
If you use Windows try to ensure you do nor run in Adminstrative mode. This is bad. Very bad.
So, ensure your Automatic Updates are turned on and patch early and patch often.
