Re: Microsoft said it was highly unlikely

Learn to read, it applies to all current versions of Windows,
including the servers which Microsoft labled the patch as only
"important" for instead of critical. If you only apply critical
patches, there are working exploits right now ready to take over your
machine.

On Jan 30, 5:56 pm, "Talmage Mcgoolage" <tmcgool...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
They are talking about XP

T.M.
"El Diablo con Queso" <queso....@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:2c8c3361-15e7-4155-8c0c-e64b925825a5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Even manages to compromise Vista remotely without authentication:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/30/Critical-Windows-bug-proves...

I figure the Windows users in here that hate the Mac so much might not
have read this.

.

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