Microsoft will release eight security updates next Tuesday to squash remote-code execution bugs in Windows and Internet Explorer among other flaws. Meanwhile, Adobe will issue new versions of Acrobat and Reader for this month's Patch Tuesday. Two of the security updates from Microsoft are rated as critical because they allow …

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Friday 9th May 2014 12:56 GMT Truth4u

So basically every Windows user is affected

isn't it nice that they love you so much they make sure the bug is in every version of their crap

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1. Friday 9th May 2014 16:14 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: So basically every Windows user is affected
  
  Sigh. Do you know how utterly asinine that sounds???
  
  How about "they love you so much that they do actually take these things seriously and patch them in a reasonable amount of time to at least try and mitigate these vulnerabilities that thousands of hackers are trying to exploit on the most popular desktop OS in the world".
  
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2. Sunday 11th May 2014 20:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: So basically every Windows user is affected
  
  "remind me to patch"
  
  All of those things are self updating. No need to remind yourself.
  
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Friday 9th May 2014 13:11 GMT Refugee from Windows

Retiring Acrobat

Sorry Adobe, but if we're having to have patches for what should just be a blooming document rendering program every other month, it's time for me to retire it. There are other products to do the same, and I'll be looking at Flash next. I'll be getting the firewall to relate everything from adobe.com as malware in future.

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Friday 9th May 2014 13:21 GMT MJI

Just need a full list of files

Then I can copy them in to our home PC

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Friday 9th May 2014 13:31 GMT Nick Ryan

The May release will be the first in more than a decade to not include any bulletins for Windows XP. The venerable OS was officially retired from support by Microsoft last month, though subsequent exploitation of flaws in the OS by miscreants has forced the company to issue an out-of-band update.

...and there I was thinking that the out-of-band update last month was to patch Internet Explorer, and the security-hell-hole that is ActiveX within it. That's not a flaw in XP as such.

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1. Friday 9th May 2014 14:46 GMT Mad Chaz
  
  Well, as IE is part of the OS that are burried deep enough into it that removing IE will bug the OS' I think we can say it was an XP patch.
  
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  1. Monday 12th May 2014 12:29 GMT Tom 13
    
    Re: IE is part of the OS that are burried deep enough into it
    
    That's a lie that wasn't caught out in court and we're all better off not repeating it. I think the EU demonstrated that pretty well when they had MS in the dock.
    
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2. Friday 9th May 2014 15:41 GMT El Andy
  
  The IE lifecycle is inherently tied to the version of Windows it is running on (because it's classified as an OS component), so IE anything on XP was and still is out-of-support when that emergency fix was released.
  
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Friday 9th May 2014 15:53 GMT Dan 55

Adobe Reader for Mac OS X

It takes a special kind of masochist to install that considering Preview opens PDFs...

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1. Sunday 11th May 2014 02:39 GMT James O'Shea
  
  Re: Adobe Reader for Mac OS X
  
  unfortunately...
  
  1 Preview doesn't open _all_ PDFs
  
  2 Preview mangles some of the PDFs it does open
  
  3 Preview has numerous problems all its own.
  
  I personally haven't used it since, well... I never used it very much. There are other apps which open more PDFs, which don't mangle quite so many PDFs, and which have fewer bugs. (Graphic Converter, for one.)
  
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