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So, I see that there’s a security issue with WinZip 10 today. I drop out to the WinZip site, download the update, and start the installation. During the installation of the latest revision of WinZip 10, I’m confronted with the following screen (and, of course, the checkboxes were auto-selected...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 11-15-2006
Filed under: Internet, Patch Management, Security, Software
IE7 release goodness?

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (English) is targeted for release on Wednesday, October 18, at 9 p.m., but as always, product quality will determine the final release date. It is essential that organizations prepare for this world-wide release by taking the necessary steps to ensure that their Web sites...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 10-10-2006
Filed under: Internet, Patch Management
Zero-Day Response Team Launches with Emergency IE Patch

“A high-profile group of computer security professionals scattered around the globe has created a third-party patch for the critical VML vulnerability as part of a broader effort to provide an emergency response system for zero-day malware attacks.” Source: Flying Hamster

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 09-23-2006
Filed under: Internet, Patch Management, Security
Just a reminder...

Next month's patch cycle from Microsoft is the start of the fourth quarter when Microsoft will push Internet Explorer 7 as an Automatic Update. If you don’t want IE7 pushed yet, there's a toolkit for blocking the IE7 update: Download the Toolkit to Disable Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 09-08-2006
Filed under: Internet, Patch Management
Can the monthly Patch releases take down the Internet?

Yesterday, the Internet was extremely slow for me, as I noted here . Today, Torsten Meringer sent me an email indicating that the MSRC web site noted that there were over 100 million downloads of MS06–040 yesterday (3.5 million per hour). If this is true, and it is true that patch release downloads...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 08-10-2006
Filed under: Internet, Patch Management
Microsoft tags IE 7 'high priority' update

Microsoft plans to automatically push Internet Explorer 7 to Windows XP users when the browser update is ready later this year. IE 7 will be delivered in the fourth quarter as a "high priority" update via Automatic Updates in Windows XP, Gary Schare, Microsoft's director of IE product management, said...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 07-26-2006
Filed under: Internet, Patch Management, Windows
Mozilla Squashes Bugs

The Mozilla Corporation has released updates to its Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client that fix a number of critical security flaws in the open-source products. The Firefox update, which was in the process of being automatically delivered to Firefox 1.5 users Friday, addresses 12 security...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 06-04-2006
Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Patch Management, Security
Internet Explorer ActiveX Update

Summary Microsoft will be making some necessary changes to Microsoft Windows desktop operating system software related to the way in which Internet Explorer handles some web pages. The purpose of this communication is to provide additional information on the planned IE Active X update for Windows®...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 03-21-2006
Filed under: Internet, Patch Management
Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1

Internet Explorer 6 is the set of core Web browsing technologies in Windows XP. These core technologies have recently been updated as part of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) with Advanced Security Technologies. And, guess what? You don’t have to remove the old version and install a new version...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 09-22-2005
Filed under: Internet, Patch Management
Crazy stuff with the MSN Toolbar Suite

After applying the latest OS updates from Microsoft and then rebooting, the MSN Indexing service (part of the MSN Desktop) hung on startup and really slowed down my computer. I finally had to simply shut down the MSN Indexing process to I could get back to computing. Anyone else experience this problem...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 12-16-2004
Filed under: Internet, Patch Management

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