full-disclosure - Unofficial Microsoft patches help hackers, not security

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Date: Wed Jan  4 21:43:47 2006
From: ad at heapoverflow.com (ad@...poverflow.com)
Subject: Unofficial Microsoft patches help hackers,
	not security

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everyone knows the best official patch is firefox, netdev is correct
here, this is not a good idea to spread untested patch, someone will
release a patch soon totally removing your IE hu ;>

Morning Wood wrote:
> this happened with the last pnp exploit
> one of the worms patched the hole,
> thus ensuring their malware stayed,
> and the box was no longer vuln
> ( to the competition??? can we say adware? )
>
> looks like a growing trend.
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