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Windows Update Flaw 'left PCs Open' To MSBlast
News A flaw in Windows Update -- Microsoft's online tool that lets customers update their operating system with patches and fixes -- enabled the MSBlast worm to infect computers that apeared to have already been patched, according to a security expert.
[August 15, 2003, 14:40]
Update Windows Today - Before It Gets Blasted
Talkback My windows update page wont download. It freezes and tells me it's not responding. Please someone help!
[March 24, 2004, 14:34]
Windows Update Driver Policy
White Papers This paper provides information about distributing drivers on the Microsoft Windows Update Web site for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. It provides guidelines that will help driver vendors understand the Windows Update rules...
[April 1, 2004, 0:00]
Windows Update Flaw 'left PCs Open' To MSBlast
Talkback The failed updating situation you describe appears to have happened to me when using the Windows Update service in early August. Good article, but what about when running Windows ME? The service says all critical updates have been peformed and...
[August 15, 2003, 21:02]
Update Windows Today - Before It Gets Blasted
News Companies and home users should use Microsoft's Windows Update service immediately, before it comes under attack from systems infected with the MSBlast worm this Saturday say security experts. The worm exploits a vulnerability in certain versions...
[August 12, 2003, 14:24]
Windows Server Update Will Pre-empt Longhorn
News Microsoft confirmed on Friday that it is looking to update its server operating system before the release of next major version of Windows but offered few details on what the new software release will contain.
[March 8, 2004, 8:10]
Windows Update Flaw 'left PCs Open' To MSBlast
Talkback Yep visit the Windows Update site. The solution offered to correct this alleged flaw points to another MS product. I ran the program and it found several issues with this XP based PC. Guess what the solution was?
[August 15, 2003, 18:00]
Microsoft Withdraws Windows Mobile Update
News Office Mobile 6.1, an update to Microsoft's mobile versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, will let users of Windows Mobile 6 devices read Office 2007 documents for the first time. Jason Langridge, a senior business manager in Microsoft's UK-based...
[September 28, 2007, 15:27]
Windows Server Update Will Pre-empt Longhorn
Talkback We don't see XP (even a 'Reloaded' version) as a serious business version of Windows. My company needs to update from NT and 98 desktops to something a bit more up-to-date and reliable. W2K Pro is not an option because it is now too old and if MS...
[March 8, 2004, 9:05]
Patch Demand Briefly Downs Windows Update
News The crush of millions of Windows users trying to patch their computers overwhelmed Microsoft's update service for several hours after new security fixes were made available, the software giant acknowledged on Wednesday.
[April 15, 2004, 8:50]
Will Update Boost Windows 2000 Sales?
News Microsoft reached Monday what many had considered the Windows 2000 Holy Grail: the release of Service Pack 1, the first full-fledged update to the operating system Before Microsoft launched Windows 2000 in February, several prominent market...
[August 1, 2000, 9:15]
Microsoft Accelerates Windows Security Update
News At the Citrix iForum in Florida on Tuesday, Microsoft's corporate vice president of content, Richard Kaplan, who is in charge of the Microsoft.com and Windows Update Web sites, told delegates that Windows XP SP2 would be available by the end of...
[October 15, 2003, 13:35]
KiXtart Script For Windows Update
White Papers Windows Automatic Updates is designed to install patches on client machines instead of counting on users to respond to update alerts and handle the task themselves. Unfortunately, the patches don't always install--which is where this script comes in.
[May 20, 2006, 0:00]
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Solutions For Windows Update Management (Level 200)
White Papers This webcast explores update management for Microsoft Windows. Through this webcast one can learn about the business case for update management and the vulnerability timeline, and can see a demonstration of how the timeline gets shorter with every...
[April 5, 2006, 0:00]
Microsoft Releases Windows Update Blocker
News The Windows Service Pack Blocker Toolkit will allow this to happen by stopping Windows Update from automatically downloading and installing the service packs. Microsoft has released a toolkit to let businesses block service pack updates for Windows...
[December 10, 2007, 14:39]
'Critical' Windows Update Suspended
News Next week's "Patch Tuesday" was already going to be quiet, with an update only for Windows. Microsoft has not specified the security bugs its planned Windows update would fix. The last-minute recall comes a day after Microsoft announced that it...
[September 12, 2005, 9:10]
What To Do When Windows Update Won't Update
News In theory, Windows Update is a great timesaving tool. Windows Update is supposed to check to see what drivers are currently installed on your system and then compare that list against what's available.
[May 12, 2003, 11:17]
Security Flaws Emerge In Windows Update
News Security researchers say they're starting to find flaws in Microsoft's latest major update for Windows XP. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has described SP2 as the most extensive free update to Windows ever, and executives have acknowledged that work...
[August 19, 2004, 9:30]
Operations Guide For Microsoft Windows Server Update Services
White Papers This webcast will provide an overview of the day-to-day operations of Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). The presenter of this webcast will discuss how to administer WSUS and Microsoft security updates.
[October 13, 2006, 0:00]
Users Irate At Windows Stealth Update
News Microsoft described the procedure as "normal behaviour" because Windows only updated the Windows Update tool itself, and not the general operating system. A Microsoft spokesperson said: "Windows Update automatically updates itself from time to time...
[September 14, 2007, 13:30]
