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Microsoft has issued nine patches for vulnerabilities in its software on the computer-murk jamboree day that is Patch Tuesday. The updates plug two "critical" vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Windows that allow for remote code execution, and seven "important" vulns that allow for privilege escalation, denial of service …

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  1. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge
    FAIL

    IE 10

    I tried it with the last round of updates.

    No more. I had to remove it. more than 50% of the sites I went to just didn't work. One showed me just the frames. No text, buttons or anything else. Mega fail.

    I don't want the Bing Desktop, Silverlight or IE10.

    Yet hiding them does not stop then from being shown the next update time.

    Microsoft really suck when it comes to updates. Don't even get me started on the reboots.

    1. Tom 13

      Re: I had to remove it.

      Really?

      Granted I don't have much experience with it since work is still on IE8 and I prefer Firefox at home, but I quite thought one of the reasons the server admins who run WSUS didn't want to even test IE10 was that there IS NO REMOVAL.

    2. beep54
      Pint

      Re: IE 10

      Since I cannot actually get rid of IE (and to tell the truth, the few times I've used it recently, I've found it not half bad), I figure I might as well update it. Still haven't figured out why it manages to collect discardable crap even when not using it tho. Bing I simply opt out of. And does anything actually use Silverlight? No matter, might as well have a 'fixed' version than not. Nonetheless, I update Windows whenever it is updatable. Have it set to 'download and tell me' rather than automatic and this works well. Never had an update go kabluey. The reboots are a tad annoyng, but I find Windows just gets cranky if left on too long and just needs a reboot to clear its silly head now and then.

      Beer, just cause I want one. Cooking sherry sucks.

  2. Gordon Fecyk
    Alert

    Privilege escalation is a larger target now

    Previously labeled "important" because the average user used to run with escalated (admin) privileges anyway, these should become "critical" as we finally can run as non-admins without badly designed applications getting in the way, and this will become the way to hack Windows without social engineering.

    If I can only get parents not to cave in to kids screaming for Mommy's password... sometimes I feel like a doctor trying to tell their patient to stop smoking.

    Now I'm not only recommending non-admin for daily work and play, but I'm finding myself recommending pro editions of Windows to homes, because of SRP.

  3. ubergeek
    FAIL

    MS Update KB2823324 - Issue with Kaspersky Antivirus

    The above mentioned patch was released yesterday by Microsoft and has been seen to cause issues with systems running Kaspersky antivirus, in that it disables Kaspersky and causes a check disk to run upon each reboot of the system.

    It may affect other Antivirus programmes as well.

    If you do find that you are affected by this, uninstall the MS update and reboot your system.

    Kaspersky are aware and are working on a fix. They are currently advising not to install the above mentioned update.

    1. ubergeek

      Re: MS Update KB2823324 - Issue with Kaspersky Antivirus

      Affected versions of Kaspersky are:

      Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Workstations / Server version 6.0.4.1424, 6.0.4.1611 or Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Windows version 8.1.0.831

      1. ubergeek

        Re: MS Update KB2823324 - Issue with Kaspersky Antivirus

        Have been informed by Kaspersky that Microsoft have now removed the update from automatically applying from Windows update

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