Microsoft released only two patches for their products on this November’s Patch Tuesday. The Microsoft Security Bulletins MS08-069 and MS08-068 patched two vulnerability with the status critical and important.
The vulnerability rated as critical could allow remote code execution in the in Microsoft XML Core Services while the vulnerability rated important could allow remote code execution [...]

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It was always a mystery to me why Microsoft released security patches on one day only considering that an unpatched security vulnerability could be exploited easily in that time. The impression with all the announcements regarding the patches a week or so earlier is that Microsoft has (some of) the patches ready but is not [...]

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Windows hotfixes usually solve errors and problems after installing them. It happened in the past however that they did produce additional errors that could bring a computer system to a standstill. It is therefor handy to produce a list of all installed Windows Hotfixes in the way that they have been installed on a computer [...]

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Users who want to update their Windows operating system can use the automatic updates feature to download updates for Windows automatically, visit the Windows Update website in Internet Explorer or use one of the several Windows Updates downloaders like Autopatcher or Windows Updates Downloader.
A third possibility came to light recently with the introduction of the [...]

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Microsoft have released their Security Bulletin Summary for April 2008 today which contains information and download links to eight patches for various Microsoft operating systems and applications like Microsoft Office and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Five of the eight security patches are patching critical vulnerabilities while three patch important ones. The update is recommended for every [...]

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