{"id":36,"date":"2004-10-15T03:10:40","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T03:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2004\/10\/microsoft-security"},"modified":"2006-04-30T23:53:06","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T23:53:06","slug":"microsoft-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2004\/10\/microsoft-security","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After running Windows Update recently to install the latest patch, I came accross this <a href=\"\/blogs\/log\/2004\/10\/Microsoft-Security\" title=\"Screenshot of the Message Dialog\">warning message<\/a>.  I thought this message was very indicative of the current state of Microsoft products, and thought it was quite funny.  The message stated the following, and offered a choice of <em>Yes<\/em> or <em>No<\/em>:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p><strong>Microsoft GDI+ Detection Tool<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The software tool has detected that you are running Microsoft software that may contain a security vulnerability.  There are security updates available from Microsoft that fix this security vulnerability.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Would you like to learn more about the security vulnerability as well as the necessary security updates that address it? (Note that if you click No this tool will not prompt you again.)<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After running Windows Update recently to install the latest patch, I came accross this warning message. I thought this message was very indicative of the current state of Microsoft products, and thought it was quite funny. The message stated the following, and offered a choice of Yes or No: Microsoft GDI+ Detection Tool The software &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2004\/10\/microsoft-security\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft Security<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}