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February 2004
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Microsoft's Help System Needs Help Microsoft's bulletins leave a lot to be desired. Here's how to find answers.   |
PC World
March 2004
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New Flaws With Internet Explorer, Excel It's a grab bag of Microsoft updates this month: You need to know about a new hole in Internet Explorer. Plus, the company announced that it was extending all paid support for Windows 98 and Me. |
PC World
February 26, 2008
Stuart J. Johnston |
Rogue Packets Stalk Windows Vista, XP Microsoft has been busy tending to a new swarm of bugs, including a critical hole in Windows Vista and XP... Firefox rushes plug-in patch... How to lock down your digital picture frame... |
PC World
January 22, 2007
Stuart J. Johnston |
Fix Flaws in Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player Critical patches have recently been released for Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, and Mac OS X. All are vulnerable to attacks from poisoned files. |
PC World
January 29, 2008
Stuart J. Johnston |
Vista's Growing Popularity Draws Hackers' Malice December's Patch Tuesday finds Vista in bad guys' sights. Plus: Get Office 2007 SP1, get your fix for Flash, and avoid an HP laptop disaster. |
PC World
July 26, 2007
Stuart J. Johnston |
Web Attack Kit Makes IE Patches Crucial Thousands of legitimate sites were recently hijacked by online thugs who used MPack, the "latest and greatest tool" for sale by the Russian underworld... Vista E-Mail Problem... Yahoo Messenger Hacks IE... HP Laptop Help Flaw... etc. |
PC World
August 20, 2007
Stuart J.Johnston |
New Attack Gets at Firefox Through IE Using Internet Explorer to attack Firefox... iPhone's Safari problem... A slew of critical Microsoft patches... |
PC World
July 24, 2006
Stuart J. Johnston |
Bugs & Fixes: Excel Holes Add to Office Woes Hackers and researchers have found three new holes involving Excel.... How to disable problematic WGA notifications... Crashing iPod Shuffles... |
PC World
August 2002
Stuart J. Johnston |
Bugs and Fixes: Serious Security Holes in Internet Explorer Microsoft says it has fixed six problems--but one wasn't repaired completely. |
PC World
September 26, 2007
Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft Plugs a Gallery of Critical Holes Microsoft's recent patch includes six critical fixes... Vista improvements that are unavailable via Automatic Updates... Symantec adds to Internet Explorer's woes... |
PC World
January 1, 2008
Stuart J. Johnston |
Plug a Windows XP Copy Protection Hole Microsoft reports limited attacks on Windows XP... Fix Firefox stability problems... Snag Apple's Mac OS X megapatch... |
PC World
May 21, 2007
Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft Plugs Critical Vista Hole Microsoft patches critical hole in Vista that it knew about last Christmas... Vista corrupts iPods... Yahoo Messenger creates Internet Explorer risk... |
PC World
September 22, 2006
Stuart J. Johnston |
Bugs and Fixes: Critical Fixes for Windows, IE, Office The surge in critical updates that Microsoft has been issuing shows no sign of weakening.... Help for Spysweeper 5.0 headaches... A new e-mail threat... |
PC World
February 21, 2007
Stuart J. Johnston |
Critical IE Graphics Flaw Resurfaces Microsoft-only Internet graphics format exploited... More Office holes... A major Adobe problem that affects all browsers... |
PC World
December 20, 2006
Stuart J. Johnston |
Windows, IE Animations Run Amok Microsoft's animation meant to help users is gateway for hackers... Good-bye to Firefox 1.5 support... Software incompatibilities with IE 7... |
InternetNews
June 8, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Loose Lips Help Hit Yahoo's IM Yahoo programmer gives up too much detail in an interview, zero-day exploit hits the Web one day later. Company has since issued a patch. |
PC World
June 2006
Stuart J. Johnston |
Plug Critical Holes in IE and Office Where to find temporary patches before the Microsoft patches are released... Microsoft releases 6 critical patches for Microsoft Office security holes... A fix for problems when you resume from standby and hibernation states... RealOne Player security patches released... |
PC World
February 21, 2007
Ryan Singel |
Zero-Day Malware Attacks You Can't Block No matter how diligently you patch your PC, it may still be vulnerable during the first hours of a previously unseen attack. Here's what you should know about zero-day hazards and the security holes they exploit. |
InternetNews
September 11, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Microsoft Agent: A Patch Tuesday Unto Itself September is looking like a slow month for Microsoft bugs, as this month's Patch Tuesday only features one critical fix for one specific version of Windows, plus three important fixes, which rank as less severe. |
PC World
August 22, 2006
Stuart J. Johnston |
Bugs & Fixes: Hackers' Latest Office Target Is PowerPoint How hackers find holes in Windows applications... Critical Adobe flash player vulnerability... Recall of overheating JumpDrives... |
PC World
October 2005
Stuart J. Johnston |
Block Potential Attacks Aimed at Firefox PCs have grown increasingly vulnerable... Remote-Access Flaw... Beware of Fake Microsoft Bug Alert... In Brief: Tablet PC Memory-Slowdown Patch... |
PC World
January 2006
Stuart J. Johnston |
Defend Your PC Against Video Attacks How to avoid automatic videos that are cued when you visit a website... Fix iTunes installation woes.. Patch an Internet Explorer 6 security flaw. |
InternetNews
June 19, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
US-CERT Warns of Unpatched Excel Flaw Warning for Microsoft Excel users. According to US-CERT, an unpatched vulnerability may well put you and your precious spreadsheet data at risk. |
InternetNews
April 12, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Five Critical Fixes in Latest Microsoft Update The software giant introduces new fixes, addressing a number of vulnerabilities in Windows and other software. |
InternetNews
April 9, 2009
Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft Has Eight Patches on Tap For Tuesday Will the Excel patch on Microsoft's list for Patch Tuesday block a two-month old zero-day? |
InternetNews
March 11, 2010 |
Researcher Releases Exploit for IE Zero-Day Hole A modest security warning about a vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has quickly grown into something much larger thanks to the work of a hacker. |
InternetNews
February 24, 2009
Richard Adhikari |
Hackers Pounce on Excel Vulnerability Hackers have launched a new attack that uses a previously undiscovered flaw in Microsoft Excel to target business executives and government agencies. |
PC World
June 2004
Stuart J. Johnston |
Worms Come Faster: Are You at Risk? Play it safe and install the latest Outlook and MSN Messenger updates to protect against the new worms. |
PC World
June 21, 2007
Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft Glitches Hamper Critical Fixes Crucial patches for IE and Office hit snags... A fix for a Norton security hole... |
InternetNews
February 18, 2009
Richard Adhikari |
Hackers Target IE 7 Browser Again Users who failed to patch their computers after Microsoft released its monthly Patch Tuesday update last week could be in trouble - an Internet Explorer browser vulnerability for which the patch was sent out is under attack again. |
InternetNews
September 29, 2009 |
Hackers May Force Microsoft's Hand on SMB2 Bug Microsoft is working feverishly to patch a zero-day bug in a key Windows networking protocol disclosed in early September, but isn't finished testing it yet. |
InternetNews
August 20, 2010 |
Experts Warn iTunes Flaw Puts Windows at Risk Apple may have patched a vulnerability in its iTunes product months ago, but security researchers are now warning that the flaw could put dozens of Windows applications at risk. |
InternetNews
March 9, 2004
Ryan Naraine |
Microsoft Patches Trio of Vulnerabilities Security fixes issued for Microsoft Outlook, MSN Messenger and the Windows Media Services. |
PC World
April 25, 2008
Stuart J. Johnston |
Hackers Focus Efforts on Firefox, Safari Internet Explorer goes unscathed, but Office is hit with new, dangerous bugs. |
InternetNews
March 6, 2009
Stuart J. Johnston |
Patch Tuesday Won't Fix Excel Hole Microsoft still hasn't patched the Excel hole that leaves users open to attack. |
InternetNews
April 8, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Unblocked SP2, 'Critical' Patches on Deck From Microsoft Microsoft prepares fixes for MSN Messenger, Exchange and Office at the same time it removes blocks for Windows XP SP2. |
InternetNews
April 1, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Code Exec Bugs Hit Windows Microsoft's mum on the Windows vulnerabilities since it still hasn't released a patch for them. |
InternetNews
September 15, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Hackers Attack ActiveX Flaw in IE IE 5.01 and 6 users warned to disable ActiveX while the Microsoft investigates. |
InternetNews
November 10, 2009 |
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday Targets Fewer Holes Microsoft released patches Tuesday for five critical bugs in Windows, although none affect the newly released Windows 7, unlike last month's roundup of fixes. |
PC World
February 5, 2003
Ashlee Vance |
Microsoft Posts IE, XP Patches 'Critical' IE flaw allows intrusion; Win XP patch less vital but urged. |
InternetNews
August 2, 2010 |
Windows Shortcut Zero-Day Gets Patch Microsoft goes the out-of-band route for securing a vulnerability in all currently supported Windows versions. |
PC World
September 2005
Stuart J. Johnston |
Windows, IE at Risk From PC Snatchers Many common browser viruses have download-able patches. |
InternetNews
March 15, 2010 |
Microsoft Developing Patch for IE Zero-Day Flaw Microsoft scrambles to deliver a workaround to protect against a zero-day exploit in its Internet Explorer browser, says it is developing a more permanent patch. |
PC World
August 2004
Stuart J. Johnston |
How to Get Help With Patch Problems Patching software is an unfortunate fact of life. We all know that these updates are necessary, but unfortunately they can also cause problems of their own. So when you run into patch trouble, where should you go for help? |
InternetNews
July 14, 2009 |
Microsoft Blocks Three New Security Holes Microsoft fixed a spate of zero-day holes in its latest Patch Tuesday drop. |
PC World
April 2005
Stuart J. Johnston |
Patch Serious Leaks in Windows Block tarnished pop-ups in Windows Media Player... Fix glitches in Outlook... Flaws in Eudora... |
InternetNews
June 22, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
More Problems Found in Microsoft Software For the third time this month, a security flaw has been found relating to Excel, an application not normally associated with viruses and bugs. |
PC Magazine
September 2, 2003
Brett Glass |
IM Security: Don't Get Fooled Instant-messaging clients leave your PC open to attacks. Here's how to close the holes. |
PC World
December 6, 2007
Stuart J. Johnston |
With Exploit Out, Microsoft Rushes IE 7 Fix Using Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP PCs remains risky... Grab Microsoft's Office and mail fixes... Beware of PDF attachments... Opera fills browser holes... |
InternetNews
August 15, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Exploit Looks For Unpatched Windows Servers When both Microsoft and the government say patch your servers, you really shouldn't drag your feet. |
