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  1. CVE-2025-55317: Local Privilege Escalation in MAU via Link Following

    Microsoft has published an advisory identifying CVE-2025-55317, a local elevation-of-privilege flaw in Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) caused by improper link resolution before file access — commonly described as a link-following or symlink/junction weakness — that can allow an authorized local...
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    • cve-2025-55317 cybersecurity endpoint security hardening link following local exploit macos mau microsoft autoupdate msrc patch management privilege privilege escalation reparse point security advisory symlinks threat detection update agent vulnerability
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    • Forum: Security Alerts

  2. Understanding the Mysterious inetpub Folder in Windows 11: Update Insights

    The Mysterious “inetpub” Folder: An Unexpected Windows 11 Quirk Windows 11 users have recently encountered an unexpected twist following the cumulative update KB5055523—a seemingly innocuous yet puzzling folder named “inetpub” appearing on the C drive. This odd discovery, highlighted by multiple...
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    • Forum: Windows News

  3. Windows 11 'inetpub' Folder Security Flaw: Protect Your System Now

    Here is a summary of the original Petri article on the Windows 11 'inetpub' folder security risk: What happened? After the April 2025 Patch Tuesday update, a new "inetpub" folder started appearing on Windows 10 and 11 machines. Microsoft created this folder to help patch a bug (CVE-2025-21204)...
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    • Forum: Windows News

  4. Windows 11 inetpub Folder Security Controversy and Exploitation Risks in 2025

    The inetpub folder has recently become the center of an intriguing and somewhat ironic security controversy in Windows 11, particularly after the April 2025 cumulative update. This seemingly innocuous and empty system folder, traditionally associated with Microsoft's Internet Information...
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    • cybersecurity directory junctions inetpub folder junction exploit microsoft patch permission management security security best practices security research security updates symbolic links symlinks sysadmin tips system administration update sabotage vulnerability windows 11 windows security windows update windows vulnerabilities
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    • Forum: Windows News

  5. Microsoft’s inetpub Folder Vulnerability: How a Quick Fix Became a Security Flaw

    Microsoft’s Mystery inetpub Folder: When the Fix Becomes a Flaw At the heart of the latest chapter in Windows patching is a familiar folder with an unfamiliar twist—c:\inetpub. The recent kerfuffle that has swept Windows administrators into a maelstrom of head-scratching and risk analysis...
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    • admin security cve-2025-21204 denial of service exploit prevention file security iis inetpub junctions malicious redirects microsoft ntfs patch failures patch management privilege escalation security best practices security research symlinks vulnerabilities windows security windows update
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    • Forum: Windows News

  6. The Mysterious inetpub Folder and CVE-2025-21204: Navigating Windows' Latest Security Challenge

    Windows users stared at their C: drives in dismay after April 2025’s Patch Tuesday, only to find a mysterious, empty new folder named “inetpub” lurking at the root of their systems—like some digital tumbleweed blown in by a particularly secretive Microsoft update. The Folder That Raised...
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    • cve-2025-21204 exploit prevention inetpub folder microsoft patch patch management privilege escalation security security awareness security flaw security research symlinks sysadmin sysadmin tips windows 2025 windows bugs windows security windows update windows vulnerabilities
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    • Forum: Windows News
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    Copying symlinks to another win10 PC with another drive-letter and folder structure

    Hi, I'm using two win10 PCs (a Pro and a Home). I just built some symlinks in different folders to a target folder mp4 files. Now I have some time to copy these symlinks to my Notebook without having to build all of the symlinks again. That means that the target, which is visible on any of the...
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    • drive letter file access file copy file management folders mklink symlinks target folder windows 10 windows recovery
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    • Forum: Windows Software

  8. Symlinks in Windows 10!

    Overview Symlinks, or symbolic links, are “virtual” files or folders which reference a physical file or folder located elsewhere, and are an important feature built in to many operating systems, including Linux and Windows. The Windows’ NTFS file system has supported symlinks since Windows...
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    Windows 7 Adobe Reader 10.0 Update breaks Symlink

    I have had this issue several times although have only just worked out the cause. I am running windows 7 with the system drive on an SSD drive. During install I created several Symlink directories to relocate them onto the large HDD. Out of nowhere (i know), some application stop...
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    • adobe reader application file management hdd issues shortcuts ssd symlinks update windows 7
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    • Forum: Windows Software

  10. Windows 7 Remove IcePick.exe: LifeCam Live Messenger on "Call Button" Solution

    On almost every version of the "Microsoft Lifecam" web camera, there is a call button on the device. The device is usually very small, and upon hitting the call button, you will have a program launched over and over again, in quite an annoying fashion, which can never be closed, called...
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    • appconflict command line crack device issues icepick installation lifecam messenger microsoft program files skype software bugs symbolic links symlinks task manager tech support user guide video capture webcam windows
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    • Forum: Windows Tutorials

  11. Windows 7 NFS, Mapped Drives, MKLINK, UAC...

    I'm trying to set up a development environment at work. I'm the only one using Windows. Others have the environment set up on Linux and Mac. I'm hoping this is possible but I'm stuck on one particular issue that is driving me crazy! I need to connect to a shared network drive via NFS. I...
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    • access issues administrator development error file sharing home office jungle disk local security mapped drives mklink network drive nfs permissions privilege symlinks troubleshooting uac windows 7 windows settings
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Changing the user space to an other partition

    I've writen some scripts to change the C:\user to an other partition. all seems to work but I can not change the security on the SYMBLINK and Junctions (not the directories) assuming all in c:\users\%USERNAME% is machine independent ... All data will be recreated at first login anyhow...
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    • directory environment variables junctions mklink partition permissions registry roaming robocopy script execution scripting security symlinks system admin user folder user space windows 7 workgroup xcacls
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    Windows 7 Is there a way to create symlinks?

    Is there a way to create symlinks in Windows 7? I've got several external hard drives for Media, etc and all and I want to symlink them to the folders in my user's folder. Is there a way to do that? For those who don't know what symlinks are, it's a linux thing, just hoping there's a similar...
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    • disk usage external drive file management linking folders media management storage symlinks windows 7
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support