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Lee Drake
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| 10/15/2004 9:44 PM |
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| What it is
In a single day Microsoft released 10 new patches - many of them critical security flaws - including a Windows Internet Explorer security roll-up patch, and a number of specific security patches for various operating systems. I'm not going to go into them in tremendous details (links provided below for that info). If you have Microsoft's autoupdate turned on you may already have these patches. If you don't (or you're not sure) a quick visit to (http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com) will let you know if you need anything patched. Some of the patches are office updates as well which are found at (http://officeupdate.microsoft.com). Operating systems affected by the various patches include Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 server, IIS, Windows XP, Windows 98, Exchange server 2003, Exchange 2000, Microsoft SMTP server 2000 and 2003, and Windows ME. IE these patches affect everyone using an MS operating system. The office update affects Office 2000, Excel 2000, Office XP, and Excel 2002 (XP).
In addition, we've had some reports of people with autoupdate turned on being prompted to install the updates on system shutdown, and then having their machine lock up. In every case so far the machine has not come back from the lockup by itself, despite continuing to tell the user it's updating. It appears to be waiting for a user prompt you cannot get to to bypass. It appears that if this happens you can shut your machine down, and visit the autoupdate sites and apply the patches manually. This may also be a symptom of the GDI+ update previously mentioned.
What you should do
Visit both http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and http://officeupdate.microsoft.com and be sure your system is checked for and has all the updated patches. If running a server confirm with the MBSA tool ( Since there have been reports of autoupdate failing and failing to complete the installations we'd recommend applying the updates, or at least visiting the sites even if you believe they've been automatically applied.
References:
Here is a summary of the Windows updates: http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/200410_windows.mspx
Here is a summary of the office update http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/200410_office.mspx
Here is a summary of the Exchange server update: http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/200410_exchange.mspx
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA): http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsahome.mspx
This concludes this viruswarning notice,
Lee Drake
Aztek Computer Solutions, Inc.
274 N. Goodman St Suite B269
Rochester, NY 14607
the human side of computing
Email: ldrake@azcomputer.net
Web: www.azcomputer.net Office Phone: 585-242-2060
Fax number: 585-242-9441
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