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 [...]
Popularity: 9% [?]
Apple released Security Update 2007-009 v1.1 which resolves an issue Safari has with certain web sites. This update replaces the original update. If you installed the original update this will install over it and require a reboot. The update is available through Automatic Update or as a direct download.
I haven’t experienced any actual Safari crashes, [...]
Popularity: 6% [?]
Apple released Security Update 2007-009 for OS X 10.4.11 Tiger and OS X 10.5.1 Leopard on Monday. The Apple support article lists 41 vulnerabilities that were patched. Patched components include Core Foundation, CUPS, Flash Player Plug-in, Launch Services, perl, python, Quick Look, ruby, Safari, Samba, Shockwave Plug-in, and Spin Tracer. The update requires a [...]
Popularity: 10% [?]
Yesterday was patch Tuesday for December and Microsoft released seven security bulletins. There weren’t any Office updates but there were updates for all supported OS’s - Windows 2000 Professional SP4 to Windows XP SP2, and Windows Vista - along with updates for Internet Explorer 6 and IE 7. All the updates are available through [...]
Popularity: 10% [?]
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 [...]
Popularity: 13% [?]
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 [...]
Popularity: 8% [?]
The OS Quest is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
I'm currently backing up over 32GB in over 121,000 files.
