By ray | February 13, 2008
Microsoft released 11 security bulletins for February 2008, six are rated critical and five are important. My Windows XP Pro SP2 installation received the following updates through Windows Update:
MS08-010 - Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer (critical)
MS08-007 - Vulnerability in WebDAV Mini-Redirector Could Allow Remote Code Execution (critical)
MS08-008 - Vulnerability in OLE Automation Could Allow [...]
Another second Tuesday of the month and another set of Microsoft patches. I realize it’s important to patch vulnerabilities as soon as possible and this monthly release schedule tends to go against that, but I like the consistency and ability to plan.
Anyway, this week brought two patches. The first is MS08-001 titled “Vulnerabilities [...]
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By ray | November 13, 2007
Another second Tuesday of the month and another bundle of patches from Microsoft was expected. This time around there’s only one update for Microsoft desktops. Windows Vista goes patch-less this month.
MS07-061 is a critical update for Windows XP on the desktop. It’s for both the regular and 64-bit editions. It supersedes MS06-045 and patches a [...]
By ray | November 2, 2007
This is an example of why people don’t trust Microsoft, or at least why I don’t.
When I ran windows update it told me I needed to update some components of it and this is the benefits I’d receive:
That sounded remarkably like the Windows Update I already had so I clicked for the details:
The only thing [...]
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By ray | October 10, 2007
Microsoft released five desktop security patches this month, 4 rated as critical and 1 rated important. All supported desktop OS’s get patched along with Internet Explorer and Outlook Express/Windows Mail. Even Mac users may need a patch. They also released one patch that was only for servers.
Bulletin MS07-060 is for Office 2000, Office XP and [...]
The OS Quest trail Log #26: Microsoft Edition
There wasn’t much forward movement on the Quest this week as my day job tended to take up all my time. I did add some disk to my Windows Home Server and began ripping some DVDs and moving other files to it. The only software update was a very minor update to iPhoto.
On the [...]