Microsoft makes Messenger changes
John McCormick
Published: 10 Nov 2003 11:55 GMT
Final word
AOL’s unilateral and unannounced move to disable a major Windows service has raised a lot of questions but shouldn’t be a major concern to most administrators because AOL isn’t found in a corporate environment very often. (However, I do know of some remote users who access corporate systems via an AOL subscription.)
Microsoft’s move to quickly release batches of security bulletins (so that administrators can rapidly respond to threats) backfired this time. It’s hardly an advantage to get a number of critical bulletins all at once if there are going to be major updates to a number of them over the next few weeks to fix bugs in the patches. This is especially troublesome since two (042 and 043) were both rated critical and therefore were given priority by many administrators.
Microsoft has also announced plans to eventually recompile Windows using software that is designed to root out buffer overrun and other common vulnerabilities. That note should be filed in the "You just now thought of this?" category.
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