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Extraordinary Windows patch KB3006137
Yesterday Microsoft has released an extraordinary update KB3006137 for Windows. I got it this morning on my Windows 7 machine and also on a Windows 8.1 test system. After having a look at the update...
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Warning: Flash screensaver as a security risk
Flash screensaver are popular – even in business. But there is a security flaw, that provides an easy method to bypass a flash screensaver’s Windows Lock screen. So it’s possible for an attacker to...
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Microsoft’s FREAK workaround causes update error 8024001F
Microsoft has published a workaround to fix the FREAK vulerability in SSL/TLS protocol. Unfortunately this workaround can cause some collateral damages. One damage could be an update error 8024001F....
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Microsoft June 2015 patchday summary
It’s Microsoft patchday again –and if I counted it in the right manner, Microsoft has issued today eight security updates for Windows, Exchange-Server, Internet Explorer, Office and Windows Media...
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KB3050267 blocks Office 2013 Updates in SCCM 2012 R2 CU4
Windows Update Client for Windows 8.1: June 2015 (KB3050267) seems to cause collateral damages. After installing KB3050267, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM 2012 R2 CU4) fails to distribut...
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EaseUS Partition Master 10.8 with GPT bug fix
EaseUS has released Partition Master version 10.8 – a partition tool for Windows. EaseUS Partition Master supports moving, cloning, resizing, creating and deleting disk partitions on MBR and GPT disks....
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Flash player update for Windows 8, 8.1, 10 (IE, Edge)
Last week Adobe issued a Flash Security Advisory about a critical vulnerability (CVE-2015-7645), that has been identified in Adobe Flash Player 19.0.0.207 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh...
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Optional Windows update KB3107998 removes Lenovo USB Blocker tool
Microsoft has released yesterday also an optional update KB3107998 for Lenovo devices. Update KB3107998 removes Lenovo USB Blocker Version 1.0.0.37, due to system crashes. I was contacted yesterday...
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Microsoft November 2015 Patchday summary
Microsoft has issued a couple of updates for Windows, Office and other products on November 10th 2015. Here is a short summary. Microsofts Security Bulletin November 2015 lists a bunch of critical and...
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KB3097877: Outlook crashes with error C0000374 (FIX) and other issues
Microsoft has released KB3097877 on last November 2015 patch day. Some users are reporting crashes in Microsoft Outlook 2010/2013 with error code C0000374. Some of my German blog readers notified me...
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Microsoft Security-Advisory 3119884 (Dell root certificates)
Microsoft has published Security Advisory 3119884 Inadvertently Disclosed Digital Certificates Could Allow Spoofing. This advisory addresses the Dell root-CA-certificate desaster. I’ve blogged about...
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Flash Player security updates – also for Windows (KB3132372)
Adobe has released an extraordinary security update for Flash Player. Also Microsoft offers security updates for Flash player in Internet Explorer and Edge Browser via Windows Update. Adobe has...
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Microsoft’s failure with default Windows device encryption
Microsoft supports automatic device encryption since Windows 8 for selected hardware. The odd thing: The recovery key is transmitted to Microsoft without a possibility to stop that transfer. Details...
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Tool tip: FolderSecurityViewer for Shares
[German edition]Today just a short tip for Active Directory admins. FolderSecurityViewer is a tool developed to analyze access permissions in network shares, managed on Windows Servers with Active...
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Problem bear: Windows update KB3102429 re-released
Microsoft has released update KB3102429 for Windows 7/8.1 on January 19, 2016. It’s an optional update for currency symbols – but we have seen this “problem bear” last November. Well, that update has...
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Microsoft February 2, 2016 updates summarized
On February 2., 2016, Microsoft has released several updates for Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Here is an overview, what has been released so far. Windows 7 SP1: KB2952664, KB2977759,...
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Windows: Optional updates and re-releases 02/16/2016
Microsoft has released several optional updates for Windows and re-released some updates for Office for Mac on February 16, 2016. Also a cumulative update for Windows 10 version 1511 seems to be...
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IE Security-Update KB3139929 adds Win10 Nag-Screen
Sometimes things get worse and sometimes nasty. Microsoft tries to push Windows 10 upgrade on different ways. But now it seems that they crossed some red lines with their latest update action. On March...
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Windows Updates 03/15/2016
Microsoft has released several security and non-security updates for Windows and .NET Framework at March 15, 2016. Here a list with a few information about these updates. Security updates 03/15/2016...
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How to repair Windows Performance Monitor
Windows provides a Performance Monitor to analyze some system parameters like CPU load, Memory usage or other parameters. But what’s, if Performance Monitor is broken? This blog post discusses, how to...
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