Monday, August 21, 2006
Ho Hum it hasn’t hit the shelves and their already applying patches to VISTA
Microsoft claim that Vista will be the most secure product they have released to date but you wonder if this is the case when they are already releasing security patches for the product before it even hits the shelves. Vista, slated to be broadly available in January and it seems is the first major Microsoft product to get security updates while it is still in beta.
It not easy to develop a product like an operating system and patching is a legitimate way to correct flaws that may be discovered down the track. Once the patches have reached a certain amount often the company that has created the product will then release all these patches as a “service pack”. Effectively, when the final Vista package has been released it will probably already carry a service pack 1 but won’t be labeled as such as there will have been numerous patches between now and release date.
Two of the seven "critical" Windows updates that Microsoft delivered on Aug. 8 affect Vista, Heaton wrote. These are MS06-042, for Internet Explorer, and MS06-051, which addresses a flaw in the Windows kernel. Vista is not affected by the Windows flaw that is getting most of the attention among the Patch Tuesday bulletins. That flaw, MS06-040, affects file and printer sharing and has already been exploited in low-risk worm attacks. Updates for the security issues that affect Vista have been sent out to Windows Update and are available in the Microsoft Download Center, according to the software maker.
Full story at http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6106974.html
It not easy to develop a product like an operating system and patching is a legitimate way to correct flaws that may be discovered down the track. Once the patches have reached a certain amount often the company that has created the product will then release all these patches as a “service pack”. Effectively, when the final Vista package has been released it will probably already carry a service pack 1 but won’t be labeled as such as there will have been numerous patches between now and release date.
Two of the seven "critical" Windows updates that Microsoft delivered on Aug. 8 affect Vista, Heaton wrote. These are MS06-042, for Internet Explorer, and MS06-051, which addresses a flaw in the Windows kernel. Vista is not affected by the Windows flaw that is getting most of the attention among the Patch Tuesday bulletins. That flaw, MS06-040, affects file and printer sharing and has already been exploited in low-risk worm attacks. Updates for the security issues that affect Vista have been sent out to Windows Update and are available in the Microsoft Download Center, according to the software maker.
Full story at http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6106974.html
# posted by Peter Saville - IT Consultant @ 4:43 AM 
