Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Apr 2007 21:05 UTC, submitted by Dale Smoker
Microsoft has decided to rush out a fix for a flaw in Windows, saying that the problem has become too serious to ignore. The flaw, which will be patched on Tuesday, was originally disclosed to Microsoft in December, but it was not publicly reported until last week. The bug lies in the way Windows processes .ani Animated Cursor files, which are used to create cartoon-like cursors in Windows.
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2005-07-07
How does a major security threat like this take almost 4 MONTHS to be patched? The largest, richest software company in the world can't manage to do something that a group of "volunteers" manages to do all the time?
I'm really beginning to think that Microsoft and many of the other commercial software companies just don't care. Vulnerabilities are fine, sh*t happens, but for f*ck sakes, patch them before they can be exploited!