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Ex Mozilla developer: Ripp of your AV-Software from Windows – except Microsoft’s
Antivirus software vendors are terrible; don’t buy antivirus software, and uninstall it if you already have it (except for Microsoft’s) – says former Mozilla Engineer Robert O’Callahan. I was...
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SMB Zero-Day vulnerability in Windows 8.1/10/Server
[German]A bug in Windows SMB (Server Message Block) protocol sets network systems at risk. A proof of concept code is publically available, but no patch is in sight. US-CERT warns. The SMB bug The...
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Video playback shows a vertical red/green line
Some users are facing a strange problem during video playback in Windows Media Player 12, a vertical red line is showing on the screen. VLC users are seeing probably a green line. Here is why. It’s an...
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No Microsoft Patch-Tuesday so far
Today we won’t receive Updates from Microsoft. The regular Tuesday updates from Microsoft are delayed. Acording to this Technet post, Microsoft found a last minute bug, that was a show stopper.
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What’s happened with Microsoft’s February patchday?
[German]Microsoft has stopped the release of all updates on February 2017 patchday (02/14/2017). There are now speculations, about the reason for that decision. Was a compromised Windows Update severs...
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Intel Bluetooth driver released via Windows Update (02/15/2017)?
Just a short question: I got a tip, that Microsoft has released a new Intel Bluetooth driver via Windows Update a few days ago. No more details are given. If your system supports Bluetooth, did you...
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Windows: Zero-Day vulnerability in gdi.dll
[German]Security researchers from Google’s Projekt Zero has published another zero day vulnerability in Windows that hasn’t been patched Mateusz Jurczyk from Google’s Project Zero has discovered the...
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Windows System Restore fails with error 0xC000000D
Recently I stumbled upon an Microsoft Answers forum post, where a user was reporting a system restore error 0xC000000D in Windows. Here are a few details and background insights. Within a German forum...
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Another unpatched Edge and IE vulnerability
Google’s project zero has gone public with another unpatched vulnerability (CVE-2017-0037) in Microsoft’s browsers Edge and Internet Explorer. After Microsoft has canceled February 2017 patch day,...
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DNSMessenger Trojan is using DNS queries for its orders
[German]Security researchers has discovered a new file less malware that comes as a PowerShell script and uses DNS queries to receive its orders. The malware was discovered from researcher of Cisco`s...
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Windows Drivers, why they all dated June 21, 2006?
[German]Have you noticed, that all Microsoft build-in Windows drivers have the same date value June 21, 2006? Its independently of the Windows version – I have seen this driver date in Windows 7 and in...
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Windows 10: Update error 0x80010108
[German]Some Windows 10 users are facing update issues, where installing update packages are failing with error code 0x80010108. Here are a few details and hints, how to solve that issue. I became...
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Microsoft’s Fix for the ‘Microsoft – WPD – 2/22/2016 12:00:00 AM –...
[German]Microsoft has published a forum post in Microsoft Answers forum addressing the botched ‘Microsoft – WPD – 2/22/2016 12:00:00 AM – 5.2.5326.4762’ driver update that affected users with connected...
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Patchday summary March 2017
On March 14, 2017, Microsoft and Adobe has released a couple of updates, to fix security issues in Windows, Internet Explorer, Edge, Office and Flash. Here are a summary. Microsoft Security Bulletin...
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Tip: Download Windows- and Office ISO images using Adguard
Today a short tip, how to download ISO install images for supported Windows and Office versions from Microsoft. Users are sometimes in need to download an ISO image file for Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and...
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Windows Office error WindowsUpdate_00000537
Some users of Microsoft Office 2013 Plus are facing a curious Windows error. Windows Update reports error WindowsUpdate_00000537 and WindowsUpdate_dt000. The error description and first diagnose I came...
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Tip: Windows Update error code 0x8024xxxx list
Sometimes Windows Update download or installation fails with an error code. A lot of update error codes are using the 0x8024xxxx (for instance 0x8024001B, stands for WU_E_SELFUPDATE_IN_PROGRESS). I’ve...
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Windows IIS 6.0 Zero Day Vulnerability is under attacks since July 2016
Windows comes with Internet Information Services (IIS). A zero day vulnerability has been used since July 2016 to attack and compromise IIS 6.0 and take over Windows servers. The zero-day vulnerability...
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Fix for Microsoft’s faulty ‘WPD – 2/22/2016’ MTP driver update
[German]Microsoft has released another MTP driver update (KB4016754) for Windows that shall fix the bug introduced with ‘Microsoft – WPD’ driver update. The history Microsoft has released at 03/08/2017...
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Windows update error 0x80073712
Sometimes users are facing error code 0x80073712 during installing Updates in Windows. I’ve seen this error from time to time since Windows Vista. Here are a few details about that issue. What doe’s...
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