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Patch Tuesday — IE7 Clean

Posted by kdawson on from the patchwork-quilt dept.

jginspace writes "As per the advance notification, Microsoft's monthly security bulletin, released yesterday, addressed five general Windows issues and one in Visual Studio. It also included a fix for a problem in Outlook Express for a total of seven updates. As patch Tuesdays go it was fairly unremarkable. The only general Windows update labeled 'critical' is for a flaw in Media Player. As usual, there's a cumulative update for Internet Explorer, but significantly, the only versions of IE affected are 5 and 6. Version 7 is clean — which is welcome news in this first update since the upgrade was pushed to the world last month. Microsoft was silent on the two zero-day Word holes, one reported here and a new one. Sans is calling this 'Black Tuesday' and recommends patches be applied urgently for the Visual Studio and Media Player vulnerabilities. Sans is recommending the Heise Offline Update utility covered in a previous story."

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  1. Re:But I installed Outlook Express 2 years ago? by phrasebook · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, just the shortcuts are removed. Ditto Movie Maker, Messenger, Media Player, IE and probably others.

  2. Pushed out? by pe1chl · · Score: 4, Informative

    Version 7 is clean -- which is welcome news in this first update since the upgrade was pushed to the world last month.

    I know you Americans consider "the USA" the same as "the world", but I can assure you that IE7 was NOT pushed out in the Dutch version of Windows XP. It is not even available as an optional package in Windows update.
    And I think it is the same in many other countries.

    1. Re:Pushed out? by Tim+C · · Score: 2, Informative

      Here in the UK, I was notified of it being available by Automatic Update at work on Monday. As I work in the web and we currently have no strategy for dealing with IE7*, I refused and set it not to remind me about it. I have heard of friends who have autoupdate set to download and install automatically who were surprised to find that they'd been upgraded, but that was recently, certainly not "last month".

      Still, assuming that everyone is in the same situation as you is hardly a uniquely American trait (although at times, it does seem to be more prevalent amongst our Yankie cousins)

      (* Don't shoot me, I'm just a lowly programmer and can't force the issue)

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      It's official. Most of you are morons.
    2. Re:Pushed out? by jonwil · · Score: 2, Informative

      Even if you are running Firefox or Opera or something else as your main web browser, upgrading to IE7 (if you are on a system where IE7 will run) still makes sense, if nothing else for all those applications that embed the IE widget which will get the benifits of all the bug fixes IE7 has. (although if said applications are known to fail with IE7 installed, thats a different matter)

  3. There is a patch for IE7 available today. by Rastignac · · Score: 1, Informative

    12/12/2006: Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP (KB928089).
    This update resolves a performance issue with the Phishing Filter.

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    -- Rastignac was here.
  4. Why oh why... by Splab · · Score: 4, Informative

    does the autoupdater insist on nagging me every 15 minuttes about restarting???? It's so bloody annoying, I know you just updated some of my software, but I'm working so shut the f*** up!

    Anyways, you can ask it to bugger off by going to control panel -> administrative tools -> services, find automatic updates, right click and press stop, that will stop it from nagging you about restarting.

    1. Re:Why oh why... by RabidOverYou · · Score: 2, Informative

      I've been doing it for a couple of years now. I have one program I have to RunAs administrator, and I logoff as user, login as admin for WindowsUpdate stuff. All in all, very smooth.

      The most annoying thing is that you can't dblclick the tray clock to see the monthly calendar; it thinks you're changing the date, which is admin-only. Fixed in Vista.

    2. Re:Why oh why... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      1. Run gpedit.msc
      2. Click on Computer Configuration
      3. Click on Windows Settings
      4. Click on Security Settings
      5. Click on Local Policies
      6. Click on User Rights Assignment
      7. Double click System Time
      8. Add the user account in question

  5. Sans = SANS Internet Storm Center by brotherash · · Score: 2, Informative

    The organization referred to as Sans in this article is the SANS Internet Storm Center found at http://isc.sans.org/ You can find the reference to Black Tuesday and more information on this update at http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1928

  6. Re:But I installed Outlook Express 2 years ago? by oliverthered · · Score: 1, Informative

    If you clicked uninstall and the application failed to uninstall all of it's components then I'd say you own those components compleatly.
    Please GPL Outlook Express for us.

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    thank God the internet isn't a human right.
  7. Re:clean != free of "critical" updates by Sancho · · Score: 4, Informative

    It asks you by default, and gives you the option to disable the feature when it does.