back to article Microsoft squashes six security bugs already exploited in the wild

November's Patch Tuesday also falls on election day in the US, so let's hope that democracy fares better than Microsoft, which reported six of today's bugs are already being exploited in the wild by miscreants. Another 22 vulnerabilities in the Windows giant's products have been labeled "more likely to be exploited" than not. …

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  2. Jou (Mxyzptlk) Silver badge

    I tried to run the Windows Spooler as non-priv user, or any separate account

    but I failed. Did anyone succeed? I simply stopped poking since my time is too precious, but it SHOULD be possible to run the spooler as non-system user. Even on NT 4.0...

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: I tried to run the Windows Spooler as non-priv user, or any separate account

      No go. I suspect that if you look at the dirs that it needs to write to, you'll find Administrator only.

      Yes it should be possible - cf CUPS.

      1. Jou (Mxyzptlk) Silver badge

        Re: I tried to run the Windows Spooler as non-priv user, or any separate account

        Well, there was more than just directory access. That would be a simple fix.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Windows 11 22H2, no one checks this crap. The quality of the patches is just shocking.

    A new version of the Photos App was released to the Microsoft Store, with the ability to install Photos Legacy (old version) from the App settings.

    On installing, Photos Legacy, it doesn't even display the name of the App correctly in the Start Menu instead showing "PhotosLegcyIcon" and in Windows 11 you can't just rename the tile. Talk about dumbing down for the sake of it, taking the user down a deep hour-long rabbit hole, of attempting to rename something that took 2 seconds beforehand. Frustrating beyond belief.

    This is basic stuff Microsoft, shameful. It's clear not a single person installed this app using this method before this update was released, and this is supposed to be Microsoft's 'flagship' OS.

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