INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
August brought loads of drama to the Windows and Office patching scene
Microsoft first round of patches killed Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications and VBScript in certain situations— on all versions of
Fixes for the bugs dribbled out three, four, six and 17 days after the original infection.Those Microsoft-introduced bugs were all the more
daunting because the August patches are the ones intended to protect us from DejaBlue— the recently announced &wormable& malware infection
vector that (thankfully!) has yet to be exploited
The mainstream press picked up the Chicken Little cry to install August patches right away
Then the buggy offal hit the impeller, and the press fell silent.
