[OT] Are security updates necessary?

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On Sun June 15 2008 17:50:16 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The problem is that "use your machine" for most people is not limited to
> > playing solitaire on a machine without network connections.
>
> Buy a router? Use the software firewall?

Neither protects against security holes in web browsers,
mail clients, word processors, etc.  Any web page you
visit, any email you read, any image you view, any
document you read ... could contain malformed data
trying to exploit buffer overflow or other security bugs.

--Mike Bird

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