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Technical Help & Discussion => General Tech Discussion, News & Q&A => Topic started by: Clive on February 11, 2009, 16:12
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Surfers using Internet Explorer 7 should download and apply a patch issued by Microsoft for the browser as soon as possible.
The patch, MS09-002, covers two flaws in IE7 rated as 'critical' by Microsoft.
"The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted web page using Internet Explorer," a Microsoft security advisory reads.
"Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights," the document continues.
The patch will be downloaded automatically if your PC has Automatic Updates enabled. If not, you should visit the Windows Update website and download the patch from there.
The patch was one of four issued by Microsoft on Tuesday evening in its regular 'Patch Tuesday' release.
Other patches covered problems in Exchange Server, SQL Server and Visio.
www.windowsupdate.microsoft.com
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Surfers using Internet Explorer 7 should download and apply a patch issued by Microsoft for the browser as soon as possible.
Shouldn't that read, Surfers using Internet Explorer 7 should download and apply Firefox as soon as possible? :devil:
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Hear hear. :thumbs:
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Or all windows users should install linux as soon as possible ;D
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Ah shaddup. ;D
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Or all windows users should install linux as soon as possible ;D
If it was easier to switch, some of us would. ;)
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Maybe many...
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It's an incredibly big patch! 240 Mb. ::)
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You sure you didn't get the .NET framework patch, Clive? The ones I downloaded yesterday were quite small, but the .NET is 248MB.
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Yes, I was told to download it. :( Shouldn't I have done so? :dunno:
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No, you should have done, but it was that, not the IE7 patch which was the biggie. :) I'd already done my machines with it, hence the small d/l yesterday.
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Oh I understand now! ;D I update manually so maybe that has been sat waiting to pounce. ;)
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Yes, it was pushed out between the two Patch Tuesdays. :) The only reason I'd done it was because we had a member having problems with it, so I tested. ;)
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Probably didn't have a large enough hard drive to take it Rik! :laugh:
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Go for the terrabyte, Clive, there as cheap as chips - well CPU chips anyway. :)
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I'm shocked to learn that my 80Gb HDD is 66% full. Does anyone still defragment their drives these days? I used to do mine once a month or so but I don't think I've bothered with this machine.
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I never bother, Clive, but that's not to say one shouldn't. One idea might be to pick up an external hard drive from somewhere like Ebuyer, and transfer some of your non-every-day stuff to it.
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I never defrag my hard disk in the sense that windows talks about it - though I do check it regularly (well Linux automates it based on how many days before). I'd suggest that you have crap on there you don't need. Maybe the temp directory is a bit full??
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It's still worth de-fragmenting the drive to help with performance, although hard disk and file system performance has increased substantially over the years. It's also definately worth running the clean up tools on windows to get rid of any temporary files etc. Also if you use vista take a look at how much shadow storage your system has been set up to use. If you have your own backup strategy you may decide it's an overhead you don't need.
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I defrag weekly, Clive, at least for the OS.
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Many thanks for all the replies. Do you use the XP defrag Rik or a proprietary one?
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I use Perfect Disk from Raxco, Clive. I find it much better than the inbuilt utility as it moves all the boot files to the front of the disk.
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Thanks Rik.