Hi malware fighters,
The Microsoft patch has again caused trouble in Germany where an online taxpayers' program became corrupted through downloading the patch. The hotfix for this was not available on the german site at the time, but on an english site. The deadline for the german tax-collect is April 10th.
Haven't we developed all sorts of methods and techniques in software engineering to keep errors limited to a specific components, where changes in the implications of components or components do not have to lead to errors and failure. If the result of some buffer-overflow in the animated-mouse-cursor-component makes an application fail to respond, we have a case of "leaky abstractions", ill-chosen interfaces or a row of simple errors. When it was the first time this occured we could forgive M$, but this is not the first time....
polonus