Microsoft Patches the Patch
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Windows XP Service Pack 2 gets a 'hotfix' for VPNs, part of the \
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'Black Tuesday' brings four critical fixes Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday brought six security updates - four of which earn the dreaded rating of critical.â¦
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In sharp contrast to last month&#39;s barrage of critical patches, Microsoft has 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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Microsoft has started to send out its latest major security patch to home PCs--but some people won&#39;t get it for a while.
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Microsoft Corp. has patched critical flaws in Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and Visual Basic with its last "Patch Tuesday" release of 2006.
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Microsoft posted a patch on Tuesday afternoon for Internet Security &amp; Acceleration Server 2000 and Proxy Server 2.0. The patch fixed a spoofing vulnerability that Microsoft rated an &quot;important&quot; problem.
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Microsoft has a massive patch for some of the many bugs and security holes in Windows XP. If you&#39;re using Windows XP, you might want to download the software patch and install it.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft is not planning to release any security updates on Tuesday, one of only a handful of times the company won't have security patches available since its monthly security updates began in 2003, Microsoft said Thursday. Microsoft is currently working on patches for known vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 7, Office 2007's Publisher 2007, and the Windows Vista OS, but they are not ready for release at the moment, said a spokesman from Microsoft's public relations firm Thursday. The last time Microsoft had no security updates on "Patch Tuesday" was September 2005, he said. Patch Tuesday is the name researchers use for Microsoft's monthly updates, which come on the second Tuesday of the month. Though there will be no security updates, Microsoft will release two nonsecurity high-priority updates for Windows Update and Software Update Services and four nonsecurity, high-priority updates on Microsoft Update and Windows Server Update Services. Microsoft also will release an updated version of the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool on Windows Update, Microsoft Update, Windows Server Update Services, and the Download Center. The tool will not be distributed using Software Update Services. More information can be found on the Web site for Microsoft security updates. Because there are no security updates for March, the company will not hold its usual news conference next Wednesday.
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Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has issued its first patch for Service Pack 2, which has been on the market for just a month and a half. The patch fixes a flaw in the VPN, or virtual private  network.
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(InfoWorld) - After handling 19 sets of patches inÂ JulyÂ andÂ August, system administrators will catch a bit of a break next week when Microsoft Corp. is expected to release just three security updates for its Windows and Office products. On Thursday, Microsoft said that only one of these updates, for Office, is rated as critical. The updates will be released Tuesday in line with Microsoft's monthly patch release schedule. Microsoft'sÂ advance notification on the updatesÂ can be found at its Web site. The other two updates, which fix problems with Windows, are rated no higher than Important, meaning that user action would be required before an attack based on these flaws could succeed. As usual, Microsoft did not release any further details on the patches. That information will be divulged when the patches are made available Tuesday. But the company may be planning to patch aÂ recently reported flaw in its Word 2000 software. Earlier this week Symantec Corp. warned that the flaw was being exploited by attackers to run unauthorized software on a victim's computer. Â
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft will release six groups of security patches next week, including three critical updates for Windows and Excel users. The critical updates will fix bugs in many different versions of Microsoft's products, including the latest versions of Excel, Windows XP, Vista, and Windows Server 2003, Microsoft said Thursday in a note on its Web site. Online criminals have used flaws in Excel and other Microsoft Office products in limited attacks over the past year. Typically, the attacker will e-mail the victim a maliciously encoded Office attachment. If the document is opened, the hacker can then gain access to the victim's computer. Microsoft isn't releasing further details on the flaws it's fixing until Tuesday, but it rates an update critical if it fixes a vulnerability that could be used by a hacker to remotely install unauthorized software on a victim's computer. Three other less-critical updates are also planned for next week's "Patch Tuesday" security fixes. They include "important" updates for Microsoft Publisher 2007 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 as well as a fix for Windows Vista. In descending order of severity, Microsoft rates updates as critical, important, moderate, or low.
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The patches released Tuesday mend four software holes in Microsoft Corp Windows operating system, including one flaw that can affect machines equipped with a massive security upgrade the company released five months ago.-The Washington Post
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Forget the Monday morning blues. For Windows administrators, the second Tuesday of the month has become the day to dread. That&#39;s the day when Microsoft releases its monthly package of patches.
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A variant of a bug that uses an Internet Explorer 6 vulnerability exposes Microsoft Windows systems patched with Service Pack 2. A security researcher claims to have crafted a simpler version of a bug first identified in late October.
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By recent standards, September's Patch Tuesday will be mild, with only five patches and one being rated "critical." In the past several months, Microsoft has dealt with more critical errors in its products with four in June, three in July, and six in August.
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Fix for critical security hole in Windows Media Format was added to Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates at the last moment.
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Microsoft&#39;s big Windows patch gets snapped up by consumers, but many businesses are still testing it. By John Foley. Microsoft&#39;s Windows XP Service Pack 2 is now in the hands of more than 100 million users, the company disclosed on Wednesday.