Trend? This is the first out-of-cycle patch from MSFT since April 2007.
Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch to be released today, stay tuned I am just pissed that they couldn't get this one out last week> Don't be surprised if you see a column in a leading magazine from me about this trend with M$ and other vendors. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 _____ From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch to be released today, stay tuned The report on line shows Reboot Required if you open all the drop downs. It is for Remote Code Execution. It is Critical for Server 2003 all SPs and XP all SPs, Important for Vista/SP1 and Server 2008. TVK From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch to be released today, stay tuned We wont know until 2:00est, I am assuming it is, and it's a bad one so there is probably exploit code for it roaming the internet and its probably wormable on top of it. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 _____ From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch to be released today, stay tuned And it does require a reboot after install. I hate when out of cycle patches require reboots. I prefer when my users don't know. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 6:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch to be released today, stay tuned Importance: High Heads up gang, more patching for this month, this one out of cycle and critical no additional information yet. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 _____________________________________________ <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art icleId=9117878&source=NLT_AM&nlid=1> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&arti cleId=9117878&source=NLT_AM&nlid=1 As if the 11 patches this month wasn't enough, now they releasing an out-of-cycle critical patch, Gotta love patchin, Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~