Eight Patches Next Week

Eight Patches Next Week

Microsoft Corp. will deliver eight security updates next week, six of them marked "critical," to plug holes in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and other products.

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Microsoft slates 8 bug updates for year's final Patch Tuesday

 

[sassofalco]

Got mine today, 13 for Vista and 8 for XP, of course some of them were for Office 2007 on Vista and Office 2003 on XP, all downloaded installed and rebooted without a problem.

Goodness Joan,

That's not a patch! you've been given a quilt!:D

 

[roy69]

Hi,

I think part of Microsoft's policy on this type of thing is, as they are trying to patch vulnerabilities before the malware writers can use them, it's not the best idea to inform everyone, including the malware writers, of the nature of the potential problem before they issue the patch

Whichever way MS decide to address any security vulnerabilities is fine by me provided that they continue to maintain their proactive stance. I'd far sooner have an issue sorted before the malware writers breech the defences, that have to carry out a massive mop-up after such an event.

I was ready for the updates today, and had them all installed this morning
by 5.20am local time, Wed 10 Dec 08 [11.20am Tue 09 Dec - US Pacific Time] :D

In all, there were 14 Updates, 2 recommended and 12 important, and covered the following range of programs and applications; MS Office System including Excel and Word, Junk E-mail Filter, Vista systems, the Malicious Software Removal Tool and a security hole in Internet Explorer 7. The exercise took no more than 20 minutes to complete, including the re-start.

Thanks go to Nigel and other like-minded Forum Members, who try as much as they can to keep us all in a pro-active, and subsequently safe and trouble-free operating environment. :D

Every one at MS does what they can. Once a compromise comes up they patch it.
Then the hakers find a new one to get around the patch.
The a new compromise is found.
Do you find a trend in this?

 

[Titancom]

Compromise Hmmmm yes MS pay hackers to test there product and if they find a way in they patch again simple, same proberly goes for virus protection companies they would never get of the ground business wise if it wasn't for hackers would they? Makes you wonder.

 

[sassofalco]

Every one at MS does what they can. Once a compromise comes up they patch it.
Then the hakers find a new one to get around the patch.
The a new compromise is found.
Do you find a trend in this?

Agreed roy69,

However, recent emphasis from Microsoft seems to suggest an improved pro-active stance, with a more aggressive approach to the problem. This appears to result in earlier detection of potential weaknesses by Microsoft, and therefore leads them to issuing pre-emptive strikes to nullify them.

What does surprise me, are the number of Users who carry on in complete oblivion, disregarding all attempts at help or service by ignoring the advisories for updates, and who then bleat like crazy when a disaster occurs.......and of course it is not their fault, somehow it's directed at Microsoft. The recent disregard of MS08-67 by a great number of Users is a classic example.

 

[ripbox]

got mine yesterday but it never alerted me

 

[sassofalco]

got mine yesterday but it never alerted me

I always get advance warning to an e-mail account from here;

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) : December 2008 Advanced Notification

Forewarned is forearmed! It all helps.

 

[.Joe]

Thanks for the heads up. I installed my updates earlier today without event.

 

[roy69]

My updates installed without a problem.
The one that made me think was the update for daylight saving in 2008?
This happened a number of months ago:huh:, why the update now.

 

[Barman58]

Hi Roy,

I think that one of the US time zones changed the activation day for daylight savings this year and for some reasons the M$ patch issued some time ago didn't get applied properly, so the were some complaints. I think it's just a M$ catch up excercise :D

 

[garysgold]

The one for the time zone fix wouldn't install for me. First time I've had a problem with WU. Had to do a system restore from the recovery console and uncheck that one. The rest installed without a hitch.

Gary

 

[Joan Archer]

Well for some reason my Malicious Software Removal one didn't get installed until today, so that makes 14 for Vista & Office 2007 this month. :D