Microsoft downplays stealth Windows Update file updates
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Automatic updates to Windows Updates in August occurred without prior notification to users.
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Microsoft gives us an update on Windows Home Server
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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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Microsoft plans to release six security updates on Tuesday to patch issues in Windows, Office and the .Net Framework, with three of the updates listed as "critical."
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Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Notifications, which was updated last month, cannot be permanently removed from the Windows Update list as a potential download, a Microsoft official said.
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By ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE  SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. is scrambling to update its Windows Media software after a hacker released a program that circumvents a safeguard designed to prevent people from freely copying digital movies and songs.
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Security-focused Windows XP update can be tough on applications. Guidelines are meant to help professionals "test and mitigate."
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Microsoft is starting to ramp up distribution of its massive security update for the Windows XP operating system. But analysts say they still expect the company to move at a relatively slow pace to avoid widespread glitches.
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Though Microsoft Corp.'s new security update package is all about protecting systems from worms, viruses and spyware, it can't do much about what's already on computers - and that could pose a problem.    The company is warning users of the Windows XP operating system to check for spyware before downloading the free massive security update, called Service Pack 2...
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Microsoft was not alone to release a security update to one of their applications this week (they updated the firewall, which was shipped with Windows XP).
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MicrosoftÂ has quietly released an update to Windows XP to fix a potentially serious configuration problem in the firewall that ships as part of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2).
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Trojan hides under patch update Do not be tempted into opening an email with the subject line: "Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-0065" because it is no such thing.â¦
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Microsoft apparently has started updating files on PCs running XP and Vista, even when users have disabled the operating systems' automatic update feature.
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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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Six high priority updates, in all Microsoft is to issue four critical security fixes for this month's Patch Tuesday. Three of these affect either Windows Vista or Internet Explorer 7, which the software maker holds out as a paragon of its conversion to secure computing. In all, Microsoft will push six high-priority updates this Tuesday, the company announced today.â¦
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Although OneCare does modify Windows' patch options, Microsoft says users are warned during install.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft Corp. plans to patch its Windows and Visual Studio products next week, but it does not have a fix in the works for aÂ widely publicized flaw in Word, which hackers are reportedly exploiting in targeted attacks. The company's security team is readying five sets of patches for Windows, and will also issue a single critical security update for Visual Studio, Microsoft said in an alert published Thursday. Microsoft rates the most serious of its Windows updates as "critical," meaning an attacker could exploit the underlying flaw to run malware on a victim's PC with no user action, the company said. These security patches are usually released on the second Tuesday of each month, and the company strives to publish a small number of updates in December, because IT operations are often short-staffed during the holiday season. On Tuesday, Microsoft warned of a vulnerability in its Word software that had been reportedly used in online attacks. Security researchers rated this flaw critical, because an attacker could exploit it to run malicious software on a victim's PC. For such an attack to work, however, the victim would first have to be tricked into opening a maliciously encoded Word file. The Word flaw is not scheduled to be patched next Tuesday, said a spokesman for Microsoft's public relations firm. There is, however, one critical Visual Studio flaw that may be addressed in the updates. That bug is in Visual Studio 2005's WMI Object Broker ActiveX object. It was first reported in late October.