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I was playing around today with Google searches to see what has happened so far with May’s patch releases. First of all, I simply did a Google search for the KB numbers of each patch to compare results of each. Here is a graph of the results: This...
In response to much attention on the ANI vulnerability in IE, Microsoft has decided to release security bulletin MS07-017 this Tuesday, a week earlier than scheduled. “Microsoft is aware of the existence of a public attack utilizing the vulnerability...
Apparently because currently planned releases did not meet testing standards, Microsoft decided to postpone all patches for this month, so you can all let next Tuesday roll by like any other Tuesday Read More...
With Microsoft’s ongoing improvements to the patch management process, you may find yourself letting automation take over on patch Tuesday. I sat down at my PC this morning and saw that it had rebooted because it automatically installed new updates...
I post this because sometimes it is easy to overlook path re-releases, especially when they are off schedule. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, the original patch itself is not flawed, it just fails to correctly set the kill bit for the Microsoft...