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MSE Bug Crashes Windows XP

danomac writes:

Apparently a bug in a Microsoft Security Essentials update caused XP computers to bluescreen. After rebooting once updates were installed the XP machines would bluescreen with "MsMpEng.exe application error".

Microsoft has fixed the error by releasing a definitions update for Security Essentials. Whoops!

Microsoft warns of Internet Explorer flaw

crutchy writes:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27184188

"The flaw affects Internet Explorer (IE) versions 6 to 11 and Microsoft said it was aware of "limited, targeted attacks" to exploit it."

"the issue may be of special concern to people still using the Windows XP operating system"

"This will be the first zero day vulnerability that will not be patched for Windows XP users,"

--from the windows-8-marketing dept

Original Submission #1  Original Submission #2 

1. "danomac" - https://dev.soylentnews.org/~danomac/
2. "bug in a Microsoft Security Essentials update" - http://www.eweek.com/security/bug-in-microsoft-security-essentials-downs-windows-xp-machines.html
3. "crutchy" - https://dev.soylentnews.org/~crutchy/
4. "Original Submission #1" - https://dev.soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=1615
5. "Original Submission #2" - https://dev.soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=1650

printed from Dev.SN, Windows not the bug-free software you thought it was on 2024-05-20 14:39:29