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El Reg reports
Microsoft has patched 25 software vulnerabilities--including bugs that allow hackers to hijack PCs via Internet Explorer, Word and Excel files, and Visual Basic scripts.
Microsoft said its December's edition of Patch Tuesday includes critical fixes for Windows, Office and Internet Explorer as well as a patch for Exchange.
MS14-80: Addresses 14 security flaws in Internet Explorer, including various remote-code execution vulnerabilities and an ASLR bypass. The patch is considered a low risk for Windows Server systems, but critical for desktops, laptops and tablets. All the flaws were privately reported, and credit was given to various independent researchers as well as the HP Zero Day Initiative, Qihoo 360 and VeriSign iDefense Labs.
MS14-81: Two vulnerabilities in Word and Office Web Apps that allow an attacker to remotely execute code on targeted systems if the victims open booby-trapped documents. This update also applies to users running Office for Mac. Credit was given to Google Project Zero researcher Ben Hawkes, who privately reported the flaws to Microsoft. Rated as Critical.
MS14-84: A remote-code execution vulnerability (CVE-2014-6363) in the Windows VBScript engine can be exploited via a specially crafted webpage. Credit for discovery was given to SkyLined and VeriSign iDefense Labs. Rated as Critical.
The article also mentions Adobe software and Linux. Are any Soylentils running that combination?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 12 2014, @01:42AM
how to write a Linux virus
Virus == self-replicating
Something that doesn't automagically spread from box to box is NOT a virus.
Malicious script != virus
PURPOSELY giving something executable privileges then PURPOSELY running it in no way resembles a Windoze drive-by infection.
You've been told BEFORE that that link's title is crap yet you continue to point to it.
That is called TROLLING.
...and what a crap page (construction-wise).
It won't allow me to link to my favorite comment there (by diddy).
Felice right below him hits the points I would have made.
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Now, if Linux *was* so easy to infect, Google (with over 1e6 machines running Linux) would constantly be flat on its face and would be in the headlines for that on a recurring basis.
Doesn't happen.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday December 12 2014, @03:19PM
Harryfeet isn't a troll, he's a shill. He fixes Windows computers for a living and lives in fear that Linux will take over.
Carbon, The only element in the known universe to ever gain sentience
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 12 2014, @08:23PM
I think you are aware that I already know all of that and that you are more in broadcast mode for those who are new here.
...but he's actually both.
When someone says things that he KNOWS aren't true, that's classic trolling and, as I noted, he's been called on this one before.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Friday December 19 2014, @03:31AM
ROFLcopter with numbers literally lower than "other" [hitslink.com] which is generally accepted to be 98/2K and Chinese Droid knockoffs? You got better odds of winning the powerball 6 times while screwing ScarJo AND getting hit in the balls by a bolt of lightning than Linux EVAR even reaching 5 fucking percent ROFL! In fact in honor of Linux and its "great success" here is a song 4 you [youtube.com] LOL!
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.