March 13, 2009 4:38 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
KB958960,
KB960224,
MS09-006,
MS09-007,
MS09-008,
Patch Tuesday,
Windows UpdateTuesday, March 10, was the second Tuesday of the month, the day colloquially known to MS system administrators and security mavens as "Patch Tuesday." Here's a smorgasbord of the items that showed up in the list of 3/10/2009 items with relevance for Windows Vista:
February 9, 2009 4:40 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise desktop,
Enterprise Vista,
KB890830,
KB894199,
KB905866,
KB950644,
KB958653,
KB960715,
Patch Tuesday,
Windows UpdateTomorrow, February 11, is the second Tuesday in February--hence, "Patch Tuesday" is once again at hand. Microsoft publishes advance notification for security bulletins each month on the preceding Thursday, so I can tell...
February 2, 2009 5:34 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise desktop,
Enterprise Vista,
Windows Service Pack Blocker,
Windows Update,
Windows Vista SP1,
Windows XP SP3Since December 2007, Microsoft has offered a Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit to organizations that wish to prevent deployment of service packs in their environments....
January 19, 2009 4:48 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
antimalware,
antispyware,
antivirus,
HijackThis,
rootkit,
Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (mrt.exe),
Windows Update,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista troubleshootingLike clockwork, Microsoft proffers up a new version of the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tools on each and every Patch Tuesday. In January, 2009, that item is described in Knowledge Base article KB890830. This tool is not intended to...
January 16, 2009 6:27 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
KB890830,
KB905866,
KB959141,
MS09-001,
Patch Tuesday,
Realtek RTL8168B/8111B GbE Ethernet driver update,
Windows UpdateMicrosoft kicked off 2009 with a very interesting critical security update on the first "Patch Tuesday" of this year: MS09-001 Vulnerabilities in SMB Could Allow Remote Code Execution addresses issues with the Server...
December 17, 2008 9:11 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
CVE-2008-4844,
MS08-078,
Security,
vulnerability scanner,
Windows Update,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista SP1,
Windows Vista SP2When Secunia calls a Windows security update "extremely critical" you know a serious vulnerability is being patched. The Windows security community has been abuzz since last week when a number of remote code execution vulnerabilities originally thought limited only to IE 7 turned out to affect...
December 10, 2008 5:27 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Desktops,
Enterprise desktop,
MS08-70,
MS08-71,
MS08-72,
MS08-73,
MS08-74,
MS08-75,
MS08-76,
MS08-77,
Patch Tuesday,
Security,
Windows Update,
Windows VistaThe second Tuesday in each month is when Microsoft schedules its patches, fixes, and security updates. Recently, Microsoft has begun to offer Advance Notification for its Security Bulletins, which makes it a lot easier to...
December 5, 2008 6:55 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Desktops,
Enterprise desktop,
Secunia,
Secunia Network Inspector (NSI),
vulnerability scanner,
Windows Update,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista SP1,
Windows Vista SP2,
Windows Vista troubleshootingLast week I blogged about Danish information security firm Secunia's outstanding Network Software Inspector. In that capsule summary I neglected to mention that Secunia sends out e-mail...
December 3, 2008 5:47 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Desktops,
Enterprise desktop,
Vista application compatibility,
Windows Update,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista SP2,
Windows Vista troubleshootingI guess those guys at TechARP really must have some good sources: less than one week after they shared leaked information about release dates and content for Windows Vista SP2, Microsoft has announced its Customer Preview Program...
