[ale] FW: [ISN] Microsoft Outlook patch delayed again

[esoteric at denali.atlnet.com (Wandered Inn)]

Do you have a reference for this?

Bob wrote:
> 
> > Microsoft Corp. said the security patch announced three weeks ago for
> > its Outlook 98 and 2000 e-mail clients will likely be released within
> > the next two weeks.
> 
> This means that it will have taken M$ over five weeks for a patch
> (that should be a "no-brainer") to avoid a repeat of the $10,000,000,000
> estimated loss due to the ILOVEYOU worm and a stupid M$ bug.
> 
> While the Ping of Death was a less harmful Denial of Service attack, Linux
> had a patch within four hours.  That's a time ratio of 200.  Which has the
> better support?  (Please, no flame wars.)
> 
> Bob Toxen
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