Microsoft issuing fix for IE zero day today...XP included

[Earth Bound Misfit]

Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for May 2014.

Security Update for Internet Explorer (2965111)

This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using an affected version of Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user. 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.

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-issuing-fix-for-ie-zero-day-today-7000029001/?s_cid=e589&ttag=e589&ftag=TREc64629f

Summary: An emergency out-of-band update will be released at 1PM Thursday for the bug in Internet Explorer being exploited in the wild. Windows XP will be patched in spite of being past its service life.

[smartphone]

1. Great, so I can tell my 80 year old brother-in-law who

uses his 10 year old computer about once a month, that he can log-on again and MS will update his computer?

Or do I have to drive to his house and do it to his computer manually?

He has a Dell, about ten years old, XP, uses IE and AOL only, and listens to music from some music channel that plays oldies from the 1940's.

He can afford to buy a new computer, but why would he bother? He would have all sorts of trouble with Windows 8, going from XP.. he would never be happy with that.

[jtuck004]

2. It says if auto updates are on it will update it. Still should check. n/t

[smartphone]

4. Thank you, I will check in my monthly visit next week.

I doubt he even knows how to click some link on I.E. He is thinking his computer is just a typewriter.

He types stuff out on it, prints it out, doesn't make another copy, turns the computer off without saving his document with a name.

Yeah, he's back in the days when IBM made Selectric typewriters.

I gave this guy a book about computers when he was like 50, 30+years ago, about how computers would help us and lead to more productivity. The book talked about more productivity, like sending letters to 100 people as easy as to one person.

He threw the book away the next year, probably never opened it.

He writes a letter to the editor of his local paper every week, on some topic. He writes it on the computer, prints it out, and puts it in the mail in an envelope with a stamp.. no email for stuff like that for HIM, it has to be a real letter sent in the mail !!!


Each week he titles the letter the same as the last week, with the name of the newspaper.. so each week the previous week's letter is over-written on his hard drive. That's the kind of guy he is.

[jtuck004]

6. Yeah, took care of a mother in law like that for many years. She made some

progress, but the only computer that she was ever comfortable with was one of the old all-in-one word processor/printer combos. They had their own OS, their own format for disks, but all it did was what she needed.

But once pcs became numerous it became so much cheaper to just get that, but she never did get used to it. I put Jarte and all sorts of simple things on there, but it was never comfortable for her, no matter what.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. There were two updates earlier today -- the other was for Windows Defender. nt

[Earth Bound Misfit]

5. Thanks for the heads-up but...

I don't use Windows Offender - have it disabled in services.msc & haven't updated it since I started using Win 7.