Browser should be treated as special case, say some.
The February ‘Patch Tuesday’ security bulletin from
Microsoft
this week contained four patches, two of them marked ‘Critical’, of which one was a ‘cumulative’ set of fixes for a selection of problems with the
Internet Explorer
browser.
With flaws in the ubiquitous web-surfing tool a regular fixture in the monthly patch cycle, it has been suggested by some security watchers that
MS
would be better off separating the browser from the standard monthly patch release pattern, to ensure best possible coverage of the frequent and often severe security flaws being found in it.
This month’s batch of updates also included a vital patch for some serious vulnerabilities in
Exchange
mail server software, as well as fixes rated ‘Important’ for
SQL Server
and
Visio
, but it is the
IE
fix which has drawn the most attention, with a spokesman for vulnerability expert
Qualys
widely promoting the idea of removing the browser from the system and releasing updates as needed – which should, many argue, be far more often than once per month.
Details of the
Qualys
suggestions are in coverage at
ComputerWorld
here
,
RedmondMag
here
and
ZDNet
here
, with the official Patch Tuesday bulletin, containing full details of the latest round of patches,
here
.
Posted on 13 February 2009 by
Virus Bulletin
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