MS Java Virtual Machine Patch released
the advisory
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec...n/MS02-052.asp
the article
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-958547.html
MS warns of "critical" Java VM flaws
"(The flaws) could enable an attacker to gain complete control over a user’s system," stated the advisory. "This would enable the attacker to perform any operation that the user could, such as running applications; communicating with web sites; (and) adding, deleting or changing data
An attacker could exploit the flaws by getting the victim to view a certain Web site with the code embedded in page. HTML e-mail could also be a danger,
Of course thats old news on the security forums
Why Im pissed
The patch is ONLY available from Windows Update (via automatic update) which I have disabled
for as to why
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26698.html
"Win2k SP3, the 'snooper' licence, and the workaround"
since automatic update would be more accurately described as "automatic update and install"
since it will not allow you to save to disk, does anyone know of a way for me to pull it off my parallel install (which still has automatic update) and install it on my primary OS? Its sitting in the temp folder, but I dont know how to install it.
Or does anyone have a link to a manual download?
