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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:56 AM

Basic Introduction to InstallShield and Windows Installer

Found a nice blog article by Susan Gorman that introduces Windows Installer and InstallShield's role: Basic Introduction to InstallShield and Windows Installer
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Sunday, January 20, 2008 1:23 PM

New Security Vulnerability in FLEXnet Connect

New reports about security vulnerabilities in Macrovision's FLEXnet Connect (formerly called InstallShield Update Service) have been published on January 15, 2007 2008. The vulnerability would enable an attacker to remotely run malicious code on a...
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:16 PM

InstallShield Support for Visual Studio 2008, .NET Framework 3.5 and VC++ 9

Macrovision released updates for InstallShield 2008 to support integration with Visual Studio 2008 and redistribution of the .NET Framework 3.5 and VC++ 9 runtime files: HOTFIX: Beta Support for Visual Studio 2008 UPDATE: InstallShield 2008 Basic MSI...
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Friday, November 02, 2007 1:18 PM

More on the security patch for FLEXnet Connect

Some additional information about the recently reported security vulnerability in FLEXnet Connect: According to Secunia the vulnerability is reported in versions 5.01.100.47363 and 6.0.100.60146 of the Update Service ActiveX control (isusweb.dll), but...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:00 PM

Security patch for FLEXnet Connect

Today, Macrovision Corp. notified customers of FLEXnet Connect® (formerly called InstallShield Update Service) of a security vulnerability in the FLEXnet Connect client version 6.0. Customers using the FLEXnet Connect functionality that is bundled with...
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Saturday, August 11, 2007 10:01 AM

Uninstalling MSI Setups created with InstallShield can corrupt Windows

There's a bug in the way InstallShield extracts COM data that can corrupt the operating system when your "Basic MSI" or "InstallScript MSI" setup is uninstalled. Read how Christopher Painter lost TCP/IP settings on his computer...
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Monday, November 20, 2006 5:06 PM

Universal Extractor

Universal Extractor is an open source tool that extracts files from various types of archives, including self-extracting EXEs, MSI packages, CAB files (including the special InstallShield format), Wise and Nullsoft Installation packages. http://legroom...
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