In spite of a host of claims from various security companies around the world, Microsoft says it plans no new fixes or security patches for its software for March. There also will be no new security bulletins for the month, even though we are only a few days into this month!
It is hard to believe that a company that makes the most used and open-to-abuse software says there is nothing to fix. The last time this happened was in December of 2003. Last month Microsoft issued 12 security bulletins covering 17 security flaws.
In the last days of February, Microsoft pushed out a patch for a bug that had the capacity to crash some Windows systems running other vendors' antivirus and firewall software. The bug affected only computers running Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed along with Windows Server 2003 and XP Tablet PC Edition 2005.
According to the Denmark-based, IT security company Secunia, security managers should not consider the absence of security patches from Microsoft a reason to relax. Secunia has issued advisories of 30 unpatched or only partial fixed security holes on MS Internet Explorer 6 alone.
Other security companies are saying the same thing. But, according to Microsoft, happy days are here again...well, at least when you are working with Microsoft products.
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