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Hello, As you know, today is Update Tuesday. Before I go into the bulletin details, however, I wanted to let you know that today we’re notifying customers that Windows XP and Office 2003 will go out of support in April 2014. We understand that preparing to deploy the latest versions of...

Hello, On this October Update Tuesday, we are releasing the 11th volume of the Security Intelligence Report, Link Removed which puts zero-day vulnerabilities into context against other global threats. We are also releasing eight security updates so please read on for details. A new method of...

I just bought a new desktop with Windows 7 Home Premium x64. The first thing I did was to go to Windows Update and download and install any critical updates. I then went to Control Panel/System and noticed that SP1 was not listed under the basic information on my computer. Is this normal? If SP1...

Hello all. It has been very nearly a week since our Link Removed due to 404 Error at Black Hat. Now that everyone’s had some time to digest the basics, we’ve asked Senior Security Strategist and chief BlueHat Prize architect Katie Moussouris to stop by the Trustworthy Computing...

Hello there. First off, I’d like to share some news regarding the updates we made to the Autorun feature in Security Advisory 967940, which we released in February 2011. The advisory made changes to how Autorun handles “non-shiny” media (eg., USB thumb drives). The change was...

Hello everyone, Today we are announcing changes to Microsoft’s Link Removed Since October 2008, we have used the Exploitability Index to provide customers with valuable exploitability analysis for our security bulletins, and starting Tuesday this information will become even more...

Every day I'm receiving daily "critical" updates from Microsoft. The machine is almost a year old and has always run with Windows 7 Home. This has just started happening the past week or so and I haven't changed any settings. Thoughts?

Sorry if this sounds confusing. I really need some help here. I've only had Windows 7 installed for a few weeks now, but I've already got most of my software and games installed and working. Based on some bad advice on another forum, trying to solve a problem with getting a game to run, I...

Hi everyone. Mike Reavey from the MSRC here. Today we're releasing our Link Removed due to 404 Error for the December 2010 security bulletin release. As we do every month, we've given information about the coming December release and provided links to detailed information so you can plan your...

I recently installed Windows 7, 64-bit on a system. Went on fine..... Works FINE. Had the system check for updates, and it found 55 critical updates it wants to make. So, I let it. At the end it wanted to do a reboot, and I did so. On the boot it did whatever it does when it says it's...

Hi, I'd really appreciate some help here! I'm desperate. Thanks! Yesterday my computer was going slow, so I restarted it. When it wad shutting down, it said that it was applying updates to Windows (it was an official Windows Update screen, ie "configuring updates" etc). Then on starting up...

Nearly 34 security vulnerabilities have been patched for this Patch Tuesday, and approximately 14 updates released to address various operating system issues for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, forum visitors and members will see more security updates as a result of this update. This...

Hello again, this is Mike from Windows7Forums.com. Thanks for reviewing this video. In this demonstration we discuss the methods used to update your computer through Microsoft Windows Update. Windows Update is an excellent tool and over the years that tool has been neglected in both businesses...

My PC running vista received the automatic update ( critical, important, or some other line of crap ) warning. They were downloaded as usual and I was asked to install. I clicked yes but a window kept popping up telling me the install failed and would I like to retry. After many retrys I gave up...

Below is an article written by Ed Bott: Link Removed Over the past couple years, I’ve been regularly checking in to measure whether Windows Vista is living up to its promise of being more secure than its predecessor, Windows XP. (To catch up with previous installments, see October...

A reminder that the highly malicious Conficker Worm is now officially 'active' as of 1 April. So far there are no reports of any major problems caused by the worm, and systems kept up to date with this Link Removed due to 404 Error released by Microsoft back in October 2008 are protected from...

My Windows Vista (32) tells me that I have 1 critical Windows update to install. So I click "Install Updates," and an error message pops up: "You need to provide administrator permission. To complete this task, you need to log on as an administrator or ask an administrator to complete the...