Microsoft this week made available its first ever software patch for another vendor’s product, plugging a critical Windows hole that endangered users of Adobe’s Flash Player. Microsoft signaled the third-party patch may be the first of more to come, which has broad implications for security and other software vendors. The move comes after Microsoft’s protests over supposed encroachment on its own turf in terms of providing necessary software updates and patches.
Is the patch worse than the danger? Now, when one of the WANTED cookies in my computer tries to signal StatCounter or RiteCounter not to count the click I just made on one my web sites, Adobe Flash Player stops my whole computer and demands that I delete that cookie THAT I WANT AND NEED. I did not delete the cookie- I pulled the plug, plugged it back in and quickly gave Adobe an inhouse message that they were greedy b**tards and idiots for thinking that they could control MY computer. Remember- Adobe put the patch in themselves, not Microsoft. Adobe is seeing the benefits of controling the computers of all the website owners, big and small. Control of those computers means more $$$$$$$$$ in sales. Adobe is not the victim here- Adobe sees $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
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Microsoft Patches Adobe’s Flash Player in New Security Strategy
Posted by: Jay Lyman May 12, 2006 02:00 PMMicrosoft this week made available its first ever software patch for another vendor’s product, plugging a critical Windows hole that endangered users of Adobe’s Flash Player. Microsoft signaled the third-party patch may be the first of more to come, which has broad implications for security and other software vendors. The move comes after Microsoft’s protests over supposed encroachment on its own turf in terms of providing necessary software updates and patches.