Microsoft hurries antispyware, holds Exchange updates
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Microsoft Corp. is getting ready to release a beta version of antispyware technology it purchased last month to the public, but will delay promised antispam and antivirus improvements to the Exchange e-mail server, according to information provided by the company.
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Microsoft's beta version of its Windows AntiSpyware application is available for download.
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After kicking off 2008 with just two security updates in January, Microsoft plans to release one of its largest bundles of patches ever next Tuesday.Twelve security updates are set to be released next week, the software vendor said Thursday in a note on its Web site. Seven of these have been given Microsoft&#39;s most serious rating of &quot;critical.&quot; The remaining five are rated &quot;important.&quot;The critical updates are for Microsoft&#39;s Windows operating system, Internet Explorer and the company&#39;s Office software, all of which are frequent targets of hackers. Here&#39;s how they break down: Two of the critical updates are for Windows, and there is one update each for Internet Explorer, Office, Office Publisher, and Microsoft Word. A critical update is also being readied for the VBScript and JScript scripting languages used by Internet Explorer.By exploiting vulnerabilities in these applications, attackers could, in theory, run unauthorized software on a victim&#39;s PC, Microsoft warns.The less-severe updates will be for Windows Vista, Active Directory, and Microsoft Works. Two important updates are also planned for the Internet Information Services Web server software.Microsoft releases its security updates on the second Tuesday of each month, a date known as &quot;Patch Tuesday&quot; in IT circles. Last year it released a total of 69 updates, an average of just under six per month, so next week&#39;s 12 releases are sure to keep IT administrators busy.
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Independent security developers, including the one that had a brief window of opportunity to patch Microsoft's VML flaw before Microsoft beat its own deadline, are now scrambling for their share of the spotlight in the wake of the re-emergence last week of an ActiveX control flaw.
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(CBS/AP) Though Microsoft Corp.&#39;s new security update package is all about protecting systems from worms, viruses and spyware, it can&#39;t do much about what&#39;s already on computers - and that could pose a problem.
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For the past few years, viruses have attacked Microsoft&#39;s operating system, Web browser or e-mail programs seemingly on a weekly basis.
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Microsoft Corp. published six security fixes &#151; half of them rated "critical" &#151; in its regularly scheduled software update Tuesday.
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As expected, Microsoft has pushed out patches for four vulnerabilities in Windows, Visual Studio and the MSN and Windows Live Messenger software.
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Test of 15 antivirus packages shows failures in four. Microsoft pledges improvements; McAfee says its updates weren't included.
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Microsoft is to give users three working days notice about upcoming security patches. Starting this month the software giant will provide a general summary of upcoming updates just before it releases patches
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Microsoft Corp. today released an unprecedented number of software security updates to plug flaws in its products, including seven &quot;critical&quot; defects that it said hackers could use to hijack
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NOVEMBER 04, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Microsoft Corp. will give customers advance notice of its monthly security updates in an effort to help them prepare to install related software patches, the company announced today.
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Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released several security fixes for its Windows operating system and Office software, and rereleased two previous patches.
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Software giant plans to issues fixes next week for vulnerabilities in its Windows Mail, Internet Explorer and Windows XP.
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Considered important vulnerabilities that leave users open to attack in Microsoft&#39;s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows for desktop and server installations, the Redmond
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While security experts applaud Microsoft&#39;s recently released Service Pack 2, some companies that distribute their software over the Web are watching the product&#39;s introduction with dread and suspicion.
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This article will highlight the security issues involved with providing Outlook Web Access or full Outlook client connections over the Internet, and then discuss how Microsoft's new ISA Server 2004 can be configured to mitigate these threats.