On 11 December 2007 Microsoft is planning to release seven new security bulletins. Below is a summary in order of severity. For more information on affected software, see the Affected Software section of the Advance Notification page, linked below. Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer can detect whether...
On September 13, 2007, Scott Dunn of Windows Secrets reported "Windows Update (WU) started altering files on users' systems without displaying any dialog box to request permission. The only files that have been reportedly altered to date are nine small executables on XP and nine on Vista that...
Further to Aubrey's post , Nate Clinton (Program Manager, Windows Update) explained the problem as " the latest version of Windows Update includes wups2.dll that was not originally present in Windows XP. Therefore, after the repair install of the OS, wups2.dll remains on the system but its registry...
The August Microsoft Security Bulletins are now posted and available for download. MS07-042 - Vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution (936227) MS07-043 - Vulnerability in OLE Automation Could Allow Remote Code Execution (921503) MS07-044 - Vulnerability in Microsoft...
Patch Tuesday is next week and will have 9, yes 9, security bulletins. There will be six that affect Windows, One for Office, One for Office and Windows, and One for Virtual PC and Microsoft Virtual Server. Six of these have been rated critical and three rated as important. Learn much more about these...
If you read the MSRC Blog post update about the Animated Cursor vulnerability, then you would have also read the following: " If you are using Windows Vista, the Internet Explorer 7 protected mode provides additional protections against web-based attacks." In a very timely manner, Sharath Udupa, a developer...
Vista Compatible Firewalls I am excited about the addition of Vista Compatible Firewalls to Windows Vista Bookmarks . This collection provides Vista users with a complete list of Microsoft and third-party firewalls. I came by the information via Donna's article, " Third-Party Firewall Software for Vista...
I have been doing more bookmark "remodeling", including many new additions. As much as I would like the authors to know I have created links to their work as well as provide appropriate "hat tips", I was making so many changes that I will apologize up front if I missed anyone. It is not intentional....
Microsoft has released what they are rating as a critical patch for the Vector Markup Language. This is a public exploit that people were talking about last week . For Service Pack 2 of Windows XP it will update the following files: File Name Version Date Time Size Folder Vgx.dll 6.0.2900.2997 18-Sep...