IT Admins See Relief on Patch Tuesday

September 10th, 2007

I.T. admins can breathe a sigh of relief this month — at least on the Microsoft front. While new Storm worm attacks and Skype viruses make their way across the Internet, Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday is a breath of fresh air compared to the past few months.Originally slated were five sets of patches, but the number of security bulletins shrunk to four late Friday. Of those four, one is rated critical. The critical patch, which will require a restart, fixes a bug that potentially allows a hacker to take control of the victim’s computer from a remote location.

Another security bulletin describes a vulnerability for Windows Services for Unix and the subsystem for Unix-based applications. The patch to fix this bug is rated important and will require a restart.

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