Every month we look forward to it ... the 24 hour adrenalin rush that sums up why we do what we do. You may be as disappointed as we are that this Patch Tuesday is different.

There will be no all-night War Room. There will be no Hunt (sorry void) poking fun at the Crazy Canucks over a Conference Bridge. Oh, there will be coffee, but it's just not the same.

Instead, there will be Byron turning out detection for 3 local Windows vulnerabilities while quietly rumbling about his love/hate relationship with network printers. There will be TK on the phone, doing his best Mike Murray impression with reporters looking for something interesting to shape a story. There will be Sheldon writing one blog entry and putting his daughter to bed tonight instead of 'seeing her tomorrow'. Other than that, there will be a team of brilliant engineers finding other things to work on.

Thankfully, we're in the detection and profiling business rather than discovery. Looking through this month's bulletin, I couldn't help but imagine how many hours were spent at eEye discovering this months' whoppers. The CCSO (Chief Common Sense Officer) in me sent strict instructions ages ago to turn off my preview pane in Outlook, but Lookout!! Now it's official.

Sorry to disappoint, but this is not your average Patch Tuesday.

Don't despair ... there's always December 13th, and we'll be here.