We cannot recommend third party solutions that modify the way the product itself operates. The reason is really around the fact that we carefully review and test our security updates to ensure that they are...

Customers of course can weigh the risk of deploying a third party ‘patch’ but it’s unclear what impact this will have on the system.

As is our normal practice for security bulletins, we document the existence of any additional defense in depth product behavioral changes, as well as the area of functionality where the change occurred so that customers...

Our information at this time leads us to believe that this is having little to no impact on corporate networks.

We want to make sure we don’t give attackers any [additional] information that could be used against our customers. There is a balance between providing information to assess risk and giving out information that aids...

We’re investigating the issue aggressively.

The scope is limited at the moment, but the impact might be that an application could hang when conducting certain operations, like opening a file from the ‘File open’ dialog in an application.

There has been some discussion and pointers on subsequent sites to the pre-release code. We recommend that customers disregard the postings and continue keep up-to-date with our latest information on the WMF issue.

Yes we are aware of some of the information floating around about problems after installing the MS05-051 update on Windows 2000 systems.

We felt it was in the best interest of our customers to not release this update until it undergoes further testing.

This situation is fairly limited in the number of customers who have reported it, but we wanted to make sure people were aware we had guidance on it. We’re still keeping an eye out for...

In our effort to put this security fix on a fast track, a pre-release version of the update was briefly and inadvertently posted on a security community site. There has been some discussion and pointers...

Those three things will help defend against most broad-based attacks. Certainly more consumers out there need to see that message.