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Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.0 (February 8, 2011): Bulletin publishedSummary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Windows OpenType Compact Font Format (CFF) driver. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user views content...

Revision Note: V1.3 (January 11, 2011): Revised the workaround, Prevent the recursive loading of CSS style sheets in Internet Explorer, to add the impact for the workaround. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is investigating new, public reports of limited attacks attempting to exploit a vulnerability...

Revision Note: V1.0 (December 22, 2010): Advisory published. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is investigating new, public reports of a vulnerability in all supported versions of Internet Explorer. The main impact of the vulnerability is remote code execution. This advisory contains workarounds and...

Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.0 (December 14, 2010): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in the Windows Open Type Font (OTF) driver that could allow remote code execution. An attacker could host a specially crafted...

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves five privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Publisher that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Publisher file. An attacker who successfully exploited any of these vulnerabilities could...

Revision Note: V1.1 (November 3, 2010): Added the opening of HTML mail in the Restricted sites zone as a mitigating factor, the automated Microsoft Fix it solution to the CSS workaround, and a finder acknowledgment. Removed reading e-mail in plain text as a workaround. Also clarified content in...

Why can't Windows Live Mail 2011 use the icon that is pinned to the taskbar when it goes into execution like every other Windows 7 program I run? Instead it creates a duplicate icon on the right end of the taskbar. One would think that if anyone followed Windows 7 conventions it would be...

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability and four privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The most severe vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens or previews a specially crafted RTF e-mail...

Revision Note: V1.1 (November 3, 2010): Added the opening of HTML mail in the Restricted sites zone as a mitigating factor, the automated Microsoft Fix it solution to the CSS workaround, and a finder acknowledgment. Removed reading e-mail in plain text as a workaround. Also clarified content in...

Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.0 (October 12, 2010): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves thirteen privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file or...

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves thirteen privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file or a specially crafted Lotus 1-2-3 file. An attacker who...

I'm trying to get a good Win XP routine to work in my new Win7 Pro 32-bit OS. I need to open a document with an application in a non-conventional way. I'm encountering two problems. In Win XP you could specify one or more applications to open a file type (i.e., a file of certain extension)...

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Information Services (IIS). The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a client sends a specially...

Revision Note: V1.1 (August 31, 2010) Added a link to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 2264107 to provide an automated Microsoft Fix it solution for the workaround, Disable loading of libraries from WebDAV and remote network shares. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is aware that research has been...

Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.0 (August 10, 2010): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft MPEG Layer-3 audio codecs. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted media...

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Silverlight. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution on a client system if a user views a specially crafted Web page using a Web...

From Link Removed - Invalid URL One of the few pieces of criticism that Microsoft got for Windows 7 was related to the apparently modest plans it had for the operating system, with some calling the new OS just a minor upgrade from its precursor. Under the leadership of Steven Sinofsky...

Hi Folks, Cybermoron posted a thread on creating a nifty shutdown button on the Win 7 desktop to make shutdown\restart easier. I posted that I use a similar method to shutdown\restart my Ubuntu installs using a simple python script. He suggested I share that here in the Linux section so here...

I shot myself in the foot. I changed the file association for .bat files to my text editor and now every time a batch file is called it opens my editor instead of executing it. It was set to nothing. I can't seem to remove the association. I'm running Windows 7. Help!

Strange Delay Before Executing Logon Script Okay i just finished wiping out my machine and loading the retail version of Win7. I've been running 7100 on this machine since it came out. This exe has been my logon script on 7100 for 5 months and has worked perfectly. Windows is set to run logon...