Wednesday, March 14th 2012
Microsoft Fixes Critical RDP Security Hole, Asks Users to Patch or Risk Attacks
Among its usual chunk of updates for Windows, Office, and other products covered by Microsoft Update, Redmond released a key security update for the Remote Desktop Protocol (2671387), and asked all users to apply it as soon as possible. It asked system administrators to give the patch "special priority," given the severity of the security hole. The security hole with RDP spans across all versions of Windows, across all machine architectures. The security hole allows hackers to gain access to RDP hosts and clients. Microsoft gives it 30 days before hackers can develop malware that can exploit the security hole. Find out more about the security hole, and its patch here.
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13 Comments on Microsoft Fixes Critical RDP Security Hole, Asks Users to Patch or Risk Attacks
If Windows Update could automatically stop>update>start services, then many full system restarts wouldn't be necessary.
I know some people who've done this manually to minimize downtime and/or have a remarkable up time.
we really need a restart less windows server... like the linux server.... this is driving me crazy considering that each windows server have like 6 vm runing on each ..... its a pain!
Silly Windows...
As with others I don't understand why no restarting is required in Linux while it is required in Windows?