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Probably we have arugued a lt on M$ Patches and the price user pays for these....or otherwise...this article is an addition to it...It highlights the problems faced after patching the system and launches a very good question :

"I got to wondering whether or not anyone at Microsoft or anywhere else actually knows how these patches work. Are these fixes just huge blocks of code that replace other huge blocks of code? Are they true patches or are they module replacements? "

and moreover we need to ponder over the analomies we face after patching our system. Still we need to look into what is M$ doing regarding patches....there is a site which lists the unpatched holes in IE...which can be easily exoploited to install malware..infact of the sites on net has links to such pages which install malware in the background using these unpatched exploits....so what the M$ thinks its upto???

And more importantly what is the alternative with us if we are to leave this patching system...

Ok no more from read the article here : http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1304370,00.asp

This article is XP centreic and highlights the problems in XP after patching.



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why the hell M$ made win xp ..



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why the hell M$ made win xp ..

To have a successful next release of Windows...and they succeeded in that goal.



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ya ...
but so much crap means every next day a new flaw has been found and exploited...



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ya ...
but so much crap means every next day a new flaw has been found and exploited...

Linux is full of just as much crap...and you know it.



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Linux is full of crap ? Any facts to proove that?





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yaaa proofs.??



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ooooooh, another battle over OS's is brewing.
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well Heather..well in Open Source Community if u have a hole u have a patch in a few mins...on the other hand its not the same in M$ areana...

checkout theis for more...
http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched/

some of the holes listed are quite serious....and still unpatched....the users cant do anything than just wait for M$ to patch...



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hmm, good point, its easy to make patches for open-source since the source is freely available
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ya but for implementing that patches u must be having some brains coz patching linux is a bit difficult then windows..



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With Every Patch u have instructions...follow them .. use some brain if required...nuthing is hard



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ya...but applying some rpm package is a bit difficult then by running some setup in windows..



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