MS-DEFCON 2: Make sure Automatic Update is turned off
Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Advance Notification for this month looks suitably innocuous. The most interesting part: Microsoft’s apparently releasing the security bulletin that was announced last...
View ArticleBotch brigade: KB 2553154, 2726958 clobber Excel ActiveX; KB 3011970...
But wait! There’s more! KB 3008923 crashes IE, KB 3002339 still hanging on install, KB 2986475 still pulled. Details at InfoWorld Tech Watch. I just had an independently reported crash, from PB: I...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s December patch hangover: KB 3008923 unrepentant; Fixit for some...
What a mess. If you know of any other problems, please comment on the InfoWorld article! InfoWorld Tech Watch.
View ArticleMS-DEFCON 2: Skipping the December patches, for now
You all know that I wait and give the “all clear” when it looks like Microsoft has finally fixed a given month’s patches. Well, for December, I waited and waited and… and I’m still waiting. If you want...
View ArticleStill at MS-DEFCON 2 — but should have an update tomorrow
For those of you who are still holding off on installing the December and January patches… Except for a few known problems, they’re looking OK. I’m going to wait and see what Susan Bradley says on...
View ArticleMS-DEFCON 4: Two caveats, but install all outstanding Microsoft patches
The two caveats: If you use Excel macros, you’re better off avoiding the December patches KB 2726958 for Office 2013, KB 2553154 for Office 2010, and KB 2596927 for Office 2007. Microsoft still hasn’t...
View ArticleMicrosoft rereleases botched December patch KB 3004394 — and it works
Thanks to JB and MM for the heads-up, and SB for corroboration. Remember that monster patch from last December — the one that required a Silver Bullet patch to zap it away? The Root Cert patch is back...
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