Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Microsoft is to release fixes for a dozen serious vulnerabilities next Tuesday, seven of them ranked critical. But the firm has also announced a three-stage process to reducing the effects of future vulnerabilities.Next week’s update (the regular ‘Patch Tuesday’ release which comes in the second week of each month) includes ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Windows update KB951748 should not be installed. It will break your Internet connection. If you have it already installed, uninstalling it fixes the problem.
I have spent the day troubleshooting over 20 PCs and have found all installations to have the install date of 9 July 2008, which in my part ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Microsoft has released a reliability update for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) that fixes several bugs in the OS update, including one that threw off errors when users tried to run large applications, such as Microsoft's own Excel 2007 and Windows Media Player.
The update, which Microsoft posted Tuesday to ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Even though Patch Tuesday is still two weeks from now, crimeware authors are already sending out fake Microsoft “critical updates.” The TrendLabs Content Security Team recently found a hoax purporting to be from Microsoft that urges users to update their computers due to a “critical security issue”.
The email, which has ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
The automatic patch-based exploit generation problem is: given a program P and a patched version of the program P', automatically generate an exploit for the potentially unknown vulnerability present in P but fixed in P'. In this paper, we propose techniques for automatic patch-based exploit generation, and show that our ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
If you're running Windows Vista Ultimate and noticed two new Ultimate Extras have shown up on Windows Update - don't worry, your eyes do not deceive! Today we released two new Ultimate Extras: Windows Sound Schemes and Windows DreamScene Content Pack #3.
Windows Sound Schemes is a pack of 2 new ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
If you are having problems getting certain updates installed on Vista, there are two places you can look to troubleshoot:
%windir%\windowsupdate.log, a log file for Windows Update events
%windir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log, a log file that tracks events to the servicing stack
These log files include the following fields: Time/Date Stamp, Message Severity, Message Source, Operation ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
With Service Pack 3 for Windows XP just over the horizon, we've managed to get our hands on the internal schedule for the release of the highly anticipated update to the aging operating system. As you can see in the list below, most of the stages will occur before the ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Microsoft said Thursday that it plans to release eight software updates for the Windows operating system and Internet Explorer Web browser to patch security holes, five of which the company described as "critical."Microsoft said it plans to release the updates on April 8. PC users can determine if they need ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Microsoft has released a Knowledge Base article to help users who are having problems getting Vista SP1 from the Windows Update site. Here's a list of possible causes they have come up with so far:
You are already running Windows Vista SP1.
Windows Vista SP1 has not been released for the language ...
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