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by **Mandrake** » Wed 04 Jun, 2003 8:59 pm

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-020.asp

Fixes two vunerabilites.

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by **DJGM** » Fri 06 Jun, 2003 7:09 am

It only fixes 2 vulns? Why am I not surprised? At the last count, IE had 15
unpatched vulns. Oh well, yet another inadequate patch to add to the list!

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by **Mandrake** » Sun 08 Jun, 2003 4:49 am

It is rather pathetic - the only fix is to disable scripting, which i have done permanantly in IE.

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by **DJGM** » Wed 11 Jun, 2003 3:13 am

Incredibly, as of 9th June, the unpatched vuln count has now increased to 18.
The patches don't work. They take one step forward, then several steps back!

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by **Mandrake** » Wed 11 Jun, 2003 4:33 am

LOL! 18! They were at 10 before.. I was finally thinking Microsoft has gotten there stuff together and were making IE a half secure browser. So much for that . . . !

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by **DJGM** » Wed 11 Jun, 2003 5:16 am

The last vuln count before last week's cumulative security patch according to Thor Larholm, was
at 15. Ideally, if this latest patch was made to fix 2 of these vulns, the number would have gone
down to 13 unpatched vulns. IMO, for any web browser, whether or not it's the current market
leader, and whether or not it's built inextricably into the operating system, that's still 13 vulns
too many! Now that this latest patch has proved totally ineffective, and the total number
of security craters has since increased, it's about time someone went on TV, and
exposed Microsoft for the cowboy operation that it is!

It's just as well Roy Rogers is no longer alive, he probably sue me for saying that!

I am considering getting in touch with the BBC's consumer affairs show, Watchdog. Amongst
complaints about poor public services, rogue traders, dodgy builders and the like, they often
feature technical consumer complaints against UK tech firms and telcos. It also wouldn't
be the first time Microsoft has been featured on Watchdog. Not long after Windows XP
was released, Watchdog received quite a number of complaints from people reporting
various problems with upgrading from earlier versions of Windows. IIRC, MSN UK was
also featured on Watchdog a while back, for a less than positive reason!

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by **Mandrake** » Wed 11 Jun, 2003 7:16 am

I'm in total agreement here .. 13 security vunerabilites is far too many! I was a little shocked when Opera 7 was released, and it had 5 vunerablilites, but Opera 7.01 was out in 5 days and corrected all of the vunerabilites! The only way Microsoft can rid themselves of these problems is to redesign the Active X and VBscript portions of Explorer, and make sure that they have NO holes. That way most of the vunerabilites wouldn't exsist. Of course, removing Active X and Vbscript would be even better.

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