How can I learn to stop being so self-reliant? How do I begin to need other people again? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Aug 10, 2009 - 9 answers

What is the current state of the art in Macintosh OS X vulnerabilities, exploits and other remote security issues? [more inside]
posted by loquacious on Feb 3, 2008 - 4 answers

I was going to hold off installing XP Service Pack 2 for a few months. Whilst I use Firefox rather than IE6, the jpeg vulnerability is listed as affecting XP itself. Do I really need to installing it as soon as possible? Is everyone else installing SP2 now?
posted by Blue Stone on Sep 25, 2004 - 6 answers

I just got another Windoze update. After ignoring them for all these years, I got "Blasted" in August, so have started downloading and accepting them all ever since. This one, from Tech Bulletin MS04-003 says the vulnerability is a "Buffer Overrun in MDAC Function Could Allow Code Execution (832483)." I want to know, before I install this one, is it necessary? Is it always/ever safe to trust Microsoft?
posted by Lynsey on Jan 13, 2004 - 12 answers