Security Alert: Advance Notification for Out-of-Band Release

[John McGhie]

All:

The following notice was posted a few minutes ago by Microsoft.

Those of you running any version of Windows need to run Windows Update on
Thursday. There's a nasty 0-day exploit out there.

Details here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-oct.mspx

Cheers

Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:38 PM by MSRCTEAM
Hello this is Christopher Budd,

I wanted to let you know that we¹ve just posted an Advance Notification for
an out-of-band bulletin release. We plan to release one Windows security
bulletin with a maximum severity of Critical; scheduled for a target time of
10:00 a.m. PT on Thursday Oct. 23, 2008. A restart will be required.

We have scheduled a special webcast to cover this release. This will also be
on Thursday at 1 p.m. PT. You can register for it here.

Thanks

Christopher

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Sorry, but I fail to see why this is posted in MAC threads?

-Dante

 

[CyberTaz]

Because many of us run Windows OS in Parallels, Fusion and/or Virtual PC on
our Macs.

Thanks for the Heads Up, John.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

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Ah, thank you for informing me.

-Dante

Because many of us run Windows OS in Parallels, Fusion and/or Virtual PC on
our Macs.

Thanks for the Heads Up, John.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

You mean, you "don't" run Windows on your Mac?

I suspect most of the Mac users in here have to run one or more Windows
applications. I run both XP and Vista on this Mac (and I have Windows 2000
here if I need it).

But being Mac users, most of us are out of the loop where we would hear
about urgent and important security fixes.

So I posted it in here, to cover fellow print professionals who have to have
Windows around.

Cheers

Sorry, but I fail to see why this is posted in MAC threads?

-Dante

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Nope, got everything I need as Mac software. Photoshop for Mac, Office for
Mac, Safari, Transmit, Adobe Reader, FileMaker Pro, AVA3, StuffIt, Roxio,
etc, etc.

-Dante

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Dante:

Well, yeah, I have all of those too.

However, I make my living as a Word specialist, and Mac Word 2008 doesn't
have what it takes to play in that league.

For those of us who make our living on the computer, it's common to need to
go cross-platform for "something". Some of the people in here "are"
cross-platform on the Mac, our main business is on the other side

Cheers

Nope, got everything I need as Mac software. Photoshop for Mac, Office for
Mac, Safari, Transmit, Adobe Reader, FileMaker Pro, AVA3, StuffIt, Roxio,
etc, etc.

-Dante

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