Microsoft is not trying to block access says Kaspersky
Microsoft's new operating system Vista will not make it more difficult for anti-virus systems to work, Russian computer security group and potential IPO candidate Kaspersky Lab said on Friday, contradicting rivals.
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9.10.2006 Microsoft: ‘Very difficult’ to block IE attack vector
A member of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team says it is “very difficult” to put protections in place to block the protocol handlers attack vector exposed by the recent IE-to-Firefox code execution vulnerability.
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22.7.2007 Anti-Spam Sites Block Microsoft Hosted Exchange Services
Microsoft's Exchange hosted mail services, designed to help businesses combat spam, have themselves been blocked by several anti-spam blacklists around the Web, CRN has learned.
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31.12.2006 Two Unofficial IE Patches Block Attacks
eWeek reports that two well-respected Internet security companies (eEye and Determina) have released unofficial patches to correct the vulnerability being exploited to load spyware, bots and Trojan downloaders on Windows machines.
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29.3.2006 MySpace to 'block sex offenders'
Social networking website MySpace says it will release tools to identify and ban US sex offenders from its service.
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7.12.2006 Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit - Block Vista SP2 Automatic Upgrades
Microsoft is offering Windows Vista SP1 users the chance to block automatic upgrades to Service Pack 2. In addition to making available Vista SP2 RTM as a standalone download, DVD ISO image, the bits are also released to Windows Update, and subsequently served to Vista SP1 users who have Automatic Updates enabled.
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3.7.2009 Windows Update Blocker Tool Kit - Block Automatic Windows Vista SP2 Update
After availability of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 for public download I am sure many users would have already installed Vista Service Pack 2 to see the performance improvements and its advisable to install Windows Vista sp2 as it has many noticeable changes and also includes all the fixes released after Vista sp1.
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27.5.2009 Microsoft Killed AutoPatcher – No More Third Party Windows Updates
The AutoPatcher project is dead, courtesy of Microsoft. Antonis Kaladis, AutoPatcher Project Manager broke the news on August 29, revealing that Microsoft killed the initiative designed to supply offline Windows updates.
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29.8.2007 Microsoft release 2 updates for IE8 on Windows 7 RC
Microsoft has released two new updates for Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 RC, via Windows Update.
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6.5.2009 Microsoft addresses new reports of forced Windows updates and reboots
Microsoft has posted a long and complex explanation to its Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) blog, explaining the latest case of why software updates are being pushed to users who believe they’ve turned automatic updating off.
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25.10.2007 Microsoft test updates in Windows 7 Beta 7000 Today
Starting February 24, we will be releasing up to 5 test updates to PCs running the Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000) via Windows Update.
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24.2.2009 Microsoft releases Security updates for Beta Windows Vista, Server 2008
Microsoft releases Security updates for Beta Windows Vista, Server 2008!
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15.1.2008 Microsoft Updates Media Center
Microsoft has announced the availability of a new software update for Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 that will provide new entertainment experiences for Media Center Edition customers around the world.
Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, will enable customers to stream digital music, videos, photos, and standard and high-definition television and movies from Media Center PCs, to any television in their home via the Xbox 360 gaming system.
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Microsoft Updates IE After Patent Spat
Microsoft on Tuesday made broadly available an Internet Explorer update related to a high-profile patent spat with a start-up backed by the University of California.
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1.3.2006 Microsoft security updates for December
On 12 December 2006 Microsoft is planning to release: Security Updates.
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8.12.2006 Microsoft updates Virtual Server
Thanks to odeeee for this article. In hopes of pulling some attention away from Vmware and other vendors, Microsoft is beefing up their virtualization offerings.
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13.6.2007 Microsoft Releases Eight Updates for Vista
This week, Microsoft released some "important" updates for its newest operating system.
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28.6.2007 Microsoft to push Windows Server 2003 SP2 via Automatic Updates on Patch Tuesday
On June 12, this month’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft will be delivering more than its usual bundle of security fixes and patches for Windows, Office and other products. The company also will be starting to push Windows Server 2003 Service Pack (SP) 2 to customers via its Automatic Updates patching mechanism.
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10.6.2007 Microsoft Security Updates: December 2005
Microsoft has just posted their security patch builletin for the month of December. As usual all required patches for your PC can be found on
Windows Update.
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13.12.2005 Microsoft Security Updates: February 2006
Microsoft has just posted their security patch builletin for the month of February. As usual all required patches for your PC can be found on
Microsoft Update. Here's a brief summary of the six major patches released this month:
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16.2.2006 Microsoft Security Updates: January 2007
Microsoft has just posted their security patch bulletin for the month of January. As usual, all required patches for your PC can be caught using Windows Update or Microsoft Update.
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9.1.2007 Microsoft Releases First Batch of Updates for Vista
Microsoft has made the first batch of updates for Vista available via the built-in Windows Update client. If you don't see the 22 updates, manually "Check for updates".
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30.1.2007 Microsoft Security Updates: March 2007
Microsoft has just posted their security patch bulletin for the month of March. There are no updates to worry about this month, so all you sysadmins out there can rest easy.
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14.3.2007 Microsoft to release six security updates next week
Microsoft will release six groups of security patches next week, including three critical updates for Windows and Excel users.
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6.7.2007 Microsoft Plans Nine Security Updates for Next Week
Security Patches include six critical updates for Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, and the company's Visual Basic development software.
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10.8.2007 Microsoft: We Didn’t Change Automatic Updates
Software giant says users are responsible for the modifications that generated claims of unauthorized patch installs.
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20.10.2007 Microsoft updates Live Search for Mobile
Microsoft Corporation has released a new version of its Windows Live Search for Mobile service. The update includes single click directions for all businesses and street addresses in the United States.
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26.12.2007 Updates from the Microsoft Daylight Saving patch trenches
It's going to be a busy weekend for IT administrators still struggling to get their systems patched to handle the change to Daylight Saving Time (DST) on March 11.
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10.3.2007 Microsoft updates MSN Video Platform Beta
Microsoft refreshed its video platform today with a new beta version of MSN Video. The updated site reflects the design, layout and features of Soapbox, Microsoft's answer to Google's user-generated video site YouTube.com.
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27.4.2007 Microsoft releases Patch Tuesday security updates
Microsoft has released its security patches for September, fixing known vulnerabilities in its MSN Messenger software and Unix services for Windows as well as a critical bug in Windows 2000.
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13.9.2007Understanding Windows 7 AppLocker
Daniel Nerenberg: Window 7 RTM has been available for just a few weeks now, but already IT Pros everywhere are diving into great new features. One of
the more exciting features introduced in Windows 7 is AppLocker. Many of you know about Software Restriction Policies, they allow you to block the
execution of a program by file name or hash calculation. You probably also know how it was a race to block applications in our network with these
methods. Users could change the name of the file, or applications updates so frequently that you would constantly need to generate new hash
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19.08.2009Windows 7 beta receiving test updates on Feb. 24th
As various Windows blogs are reporting, Microsoft is issuing some test updates for the official Windows 7 Beta (that's build 7000) this month, on
the 24th. The purpose of these updates is to ensure that Windows 7 is fully capable of being issued online updates, and to help the Windows 7 check
for any problems or bugs. The updates themselves will not automatically be install, but yet the user will be notified of these and will be offered if
they wish to download them. The updates serve no purpose except for testing, and this will be clearly labeled that they are for testing purposes only.
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20.02.2009Windows Server 2008 DNS Block Feature
Windows Server 2008 introduces a DNS block feature that may affect the ISA Server automatic discovery when implementing the WPAD mechanism using a
Windows Server 2008 DNS Server.
The block feature provides a global query block list to reduce vulnerability associated with
dynamic DNS updates. Dynamic update makes it possible for DNS client computers to register and dynamically update their resource records with a DNS
server whenever a client changes its network address or host name. This reduces the need for manual administration of zone records, especially for
clients that frequently move or change locations and use DHCP to obtain an IP address. This convenience comes at a cost, however, because an
authorized client can register any unused host name, even a host name that might have special significance for certain applications. This can allow a
malicious user to "hijack" a special name and divert certain types of network traffic to that user's computer. WPAD is a commonly deployed protocol
vulnerable to this type of hijacking, and by default WPAD look up is disabled by the blocking mechanism.
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19.02.2008Patch Tuesday for September 2009
Microsoft's Security Bulletin for September contains five critical bulletins for release on Tuesday to block Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities
in Windows operating systems. The five patches are scheduled for release on September 8, 2009. All five bulletins have been rated as "Critical",
Microsoft's highest rating for vulnerabilities. These critical updates are to prevent exploitation of Windows operating system and prevent holes
used by Internet worms to attack users without user interaction. These updates only affect Microsoft Windows operating systems and not any other
software.
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05.09.2009Microsoft pushes Windows Updates tomorrow
Just two weeks after the previously released set of updates. Tomorrow, on January 27, 2009, Microsoft will be pushing a couple of updates and patches
for Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP and Windows Vista. The patches include an update for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. The
Service Pack 1 for the .NET Framework 3.5 is a cumulative update for previous versions of the .NET Framework, including 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5. The .NET
Framework 3.5 Family Update provides important compatibility updates in applications. The Family Update has been marked as High Priority, and an
update will also be available for the Family Update Language Pack.
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27.01.2009Windows 7 RC to receive test updates on May 12th
Those involved with Windows 7 will remember a while back the beta received test updates, to check if how well the update system worked within
Microsoft's new operating system. Well, a similar thing is happening, this time in the Windows 7 RC variety. This has come straight from the
company itself, via the Windows Team blog, as well as being reported on TechNet. Keeping it the same as the previous updates, they will deliver no
fixes or anything of the sort, and there should be around about 10 of them.
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10.05.200916 updates on tap for April Patch Tuesday
An advance notification regarding Microsoft's Patch Tuesday promises eight security updates to Windows, Office, and IE vulnerabilities and eight more
non-security related updates for Windows Update and Windows Server Update Services...
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05.04.2008Sixteen updates on tap for April Patch Tuesday
An advance notification regarding Microsoft's Patch Tuesday promises eight security updates to Windows, Office, and IE vulnerabilities and eight more
non-security related updates for Windows Update and Windows Server Update Services...
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07.04.2008Windows Defender Gets Updates
It's been a long time since
Vista Beta testers have seen
updates for Windows Defender.
But finally on Tuesday, A new
category for updates specified
for the program appeared on
the Windows Update site, the
category for the updates has
been classified under
"Windows Products".
Along with that,
another category named
"Definition Updates" will be
available for newly released
definition updates for the
program.
At the
moment, Windows Defender is
only available to Windows
Vista testers and the updates
will only become available to
those who are testing
Microsoft's new Update
Service Pack 1.
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17.01.2006Seven Updates Coming for Patch
Tuesday
Microsoft will release a total
of seven updates as part of
its monthly Patch Tuesday
program, the company announced
Thursday. One targets a flaw
in Windows Media Player, four
for Microsoft Windows, one for
both Microsoft Windows and
Office, and one for Microsoft
Office only...
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11.02.2006Microsoft Looking Into Patch
Problems
Microsoft on Tuesday
acknowledged that a patch
released as part of its
monthly updates last week
could block some users from
accessing "My
Documents" or "My
Pictures," and crash
applications when the
"Open" dialog is
activated. The problem affects
systems with certain HP
software and older Nvidia
drivers...
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18.04.2006Microsoft's Valentine: Patch
Tuesday
It was no love and all
business for Microsoft on
Tuesday, as the company
released seven updates for its
products. These included fixes
for two critical flaws in
Internet Explorer and Windows
Media Player, and five
important updates addressing
issues in Windows and
Microsoft Office...
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15.02.2006Test Updates for Windows 7 Beta Users
Brandon LeBlanc: Starting February 24, we will be releasing up to 5 test updates to PCs running the Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000) via Windows Update.
These updates allow us to test and verify our ability to deliver and manage the updating of Windows 7. We typically verify servicing scenarios during
a beta...
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20.02.2009Study: IE8's SmartScreen leads in malware protection
A recently released NSS Labs study, claims that Internet Explorer 8 greatly outperforms competing browsers in terms of protecting users against web
based malware. According to the study based upon a sample of 492 URLs, not only is IE8's SmartScreen Filter achieving a leading position against
the rest of the popular browsers, but also, it also outperforms them in terms of the average time it takes to block known and already tested malicious
sites. Here's how the study ranks the browsers:Microsoft Internet Explorer v8 (RC1) achieved 69% block rate Mozilla Firefox v3.07 achieved just
over 30% block rate Apple Safari v3 achieved 24% block rate Google Chrome 1.0.154 achieved 16% block rate Opera 9.64 achieved 5% block rate
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26.03.2009Microsoft Plans Six Security Updates, Two For Windows Vista
Gearing up for next
week's Patch Tuesday release,
Microsoft announced on
Thursday that it's preparing
six security updates -- four
of them for critical bugs.
One
security update actually can
patch multiple vulnerabilities
so it's unclear at this point
how many flaws next week's
releases will fix. Microsoft,
though, did announce in its
Security Bulletin Advance
Notification that each of the
four critical updates will
affect Windows software, while
only one affects Internet
Explorer. Another one will
address issues in Outlook
Express, as well as Windows
Mail.
One critical
vulnerability affects Windows
Mail in Windows Vista and
Windows Vista x64 edition.
There another patch for
Windows Vista that's rated
"moderate"...
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08.06.2007Apple's block-all firewall not as advertised
The Cupertino company has admitted that a setting in its firewall application in Mac OS X Leopard to "block all incoming connections" isn't
exactly true...
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16.11.2007Microsoft release 2 updates for IE8 on Windows 7 RC
Microsoft has released two new updates for Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 RC, via Windows Update. The first update applies only to Windows 7 RC, and
will be fixed in the Windows 7 RTM. The first issue resolved is one which, according to the Microsoft Support site, caused the browser to hang, and
show this error message: "A webpage is not responding on the following website: (Website name)". The update for this issue requires the browser to
restart before it can be applied. The issue is apparently caused by a timer used to detect when web pages have stopped responding, which is normally
fine.
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06.05.2009BitTorrent site sues for IFPI compensation over block
The Pirate Bay has asked a Dutch court to order music industry group IFPI for monetary compensation for a block placed on it by ISP Tele2...
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17.04.2008IE 8:Expected Windows Update and Automatic Updates Schedule
Now that IE 8 is available for download via Microsoft Download website, users should expect IE 8 being delivered via Windows Update soon. TechARP is
reporting that Microsoft will release IE8 via Windows Update a week later and schedule automatic updates at the end of April, 2009. Refer the IE 8
release notes for more info on the known issues, compatibility issues and other issues. Microsoft released the Wave 0 (25 languages) which is the RTM
version of IE 8 yesterday.
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20.03.2009Microsoft Updates Plans for
64-Bit Computing
Announces updates to Windows
Server 2003 and Virtual Server
2005...
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