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Microsoft petulance over third party zero day security strange
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Microsoft petulance over third party zero day security strange | Microsoft petulance over third party zero day security strange |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Monday, 25 September 2006 | |
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The appearance of a zero day exploit for the critical VML (Vector Markup Language) vulnerability that has been found to affect not only Internet Explorer but also Office 2003 and Outlook HTML emails has prompted third party security professionals to develop immediate fixes. Microsoft, which expects its users to wait until October 10 for an official patch, is strangely petulant but it cannot afford to be.
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To be sure, most users will welcome the fix that arrives from Microsoft on Patch Tuesday. However, until then they want to protect themselves with every measure at their disposal. For its part, Microsoft should do everything in its power to help its users protect themselves from exploits of vulnerabilities in its software. That includes working together with third party security suppliers. |
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