Microsoft: &#39;Secret&#39; updates were for Windows Update
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InfoWorld - Microsoft claims updates sent out to Windows XP and Vista machines without users knowing about them were for the Windows Update mechanism, though the company acknowledged it could have been more &quot;transparent&quot; before changing files on user computers.
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Microsoft gives us an update on Windows Home Server
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NOVEMBER 11, 2004  - In sharp contrast to last month&#39;s barrage of critical patches, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday offered up just one &quot;important&quot; fix for users to implement in its scheduled round of security updates for November.
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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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11 updates, some critical October's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft's monthly security update, will see the release of 11 security updates, some of which are critical.â¦
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If you want the &#39;security enhancements&#39; of Windows XP SP2 but you&#39;re running an earlier version of Windows, then you&#39;re going to have to upgrade, Microsoft has been confirming to the public prints this week.
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'Secure Development Lifecycle' only goes so far Microsoft on Tuesday issued two security updates, one of them rated critical that fixes nasty bugs in Windows Vista that could allow an attacker to gain complete control over a user's machine.â¦
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He said his company&#39;s Windows XP operating system update, launched last month by Bill Gates, was the &quot;first big line we have drawn in the sand&quot; to combat security breaches and spam.
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The new flaw is unrelated to the help-file flaws discovered by a Chinese security company last week. Microsoft took the Chinese security group to task for disclosing the vulnerability without giving the company a chance to develop a fix.
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Microsoft has released a critical update for Windows Service Pack 2, designed to resolve an installation problem with a piece of adware -- but it maintains that the update isn&#39;ta patch.
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Microsoft is again pledging to improve the security of its software by beginning to notify customers of upcoming patches. However, the promise came just as experts warned that attack code exploiting
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By John Torro, St. Petersburg Times, Fla.  Sep. 4--UNINSTALL UPDATES TO FIND SOURCE OF PROBLEMS: Microsoft alerted  me to nine critical updates Aug. 9. My computer is set up to accept these  automatically, and they were downloaded Windows XP Home.
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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 Thursday.
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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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Microsoft is including a set of nonsecurity updates that prepare customers to install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 as part of its monthly &quot;Patch Tuesday&quot; security fixes.Two of three prerequisite updates needed to install SP1 are hitting Microsoft&#39;s Windows Update for the first time Tuesday along with the usual batch of security updates it releases every month. The technologies -- called KB937287 and KB938371 -- are marked &quot;Important&quot; and will install automatically if a Windows user has Windows Update set to the recommended configuration, according to a post on the Windows Vista team blog.KB937287 is an update to Vista&#39;s servicing stack, and KB938371 is a multicomponent update, according to the blog post attributed to Nick White, a product manager on the Vista team. Both must be installed before a machine can successfully be updated to Windows Vista SP1.The third prerequisite to installing SP1, KB935509, also is being released through Windows Update Tuesday. However, that technology is an update of a previously released technology, not a brand new release.Microsoft plans to release Vista SP1&#160;in its first five languages -- English, French, Spanish, German, and Japanese -- to the Windows Update and the download center on Microsoft&#39;s Web site in mid-March. However, some computers may not work with the update right away because of device-driver incompatibilities; Microsoft is hoping to resolve those by mid-March, which is why it is putting off the release until then even though the final code for SP1 is available now.Following its first release, Microsoft in mid-April plans to make SP1 available in the first five languages to anyone who has chosen not to download it. Microsoft will follow with the remaining language releases of Vista SP1 soon after. Many believe the SP1 milestone is the one that will bring about a new wave of adoption for Vista, especially among&#160;business customers that have been awaiting the service pack&#39;s release&#160;before updating employee desktops.Microsoft releases security updates every second Tuesday of the month, which is why security researchers call the day &quot;Patch Tuesday.&quot; The company often includes nonsecurity updates with these releases, although it also will release nonsecurity updates on the fourth Tuesday of the month.
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On Thursday, Microsoft gave I.T. administrators a sneak peak of next week&#39;s security updates. June&#39;s Patch Tuesday will see six sets of software patches. Four of those six will fix critical flaws in Windows and related software.
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Microsoft issued seven patches on Tuesday as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday cycle, with three updates receiving the dreaded "critical" rating. While Redmond did not issue an update for the newly discovered Word vulnerabilities, the software giant said it is still working on a fix for the two critical flaws that have been the target of numerous hack attacks since last week.