Security

I’ve got more updates today than I ever recall seeing before. Updates available for XP, 2K3, Vista, 2K8, Seven, Office 2K3 through 2K10, and several developer tools. Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for April 2011

Updates available for XP, 2K3, Vista, 2K8, and Seven. Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2011

Got Windows? Then you got updates. Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February 2011

Updates available for XP-7 and MS Office. There is also an optional update for Windows 7 that basically prepares your computer for SP1.

This update is necessary to successfully install and to remove any service packs to all versions of Windows 7 and on Windows Server 2008 R2.

FWIW, I have no clue when Windows 7 SP1 will come out. Last I heard was Q1 which means sometime before April.

Download & Info

This version of Microsoft Security Essentials includes the following new features and enhancements to better help protect your computer from threats:

-Windows Firewall integration. Security Essentials setup enables you to turn on or off Windows Firewall.

-Network Inspection System. This feature enhances real-time protection by inspecting network traffic to help proactively block exploitation of known network-based vulnerabilities.

-New and improved protection engine. The updated engine offers enhanced detection and cleanup capabilities with better performance.

[Read more…] about Microsoft Security Essentials 2

Updates, and updates, and more updates available for XP, 2K3, Vista, 2K8, Seven, Office, etc.
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for December 2010

Story found via Neowin, via Winrumors, original at Prevx. It being the Thanksgiving Holiday here in the states I assume most of the MS staff here is off and the only official statement I can find from Microsoft at the moment is from a German Microsoft TechNet blog post. Microsoft is investigating new vulnerability in Windows Kernel (translated).

Being a privilege escalation exploit, it bypasses by design even the protection given by the User Account Control and Limited User Account technology implemented in Windows Vista and Windows 7. All Windows XP/Vista/7 both 32 and 64 bit are vulnerable to this attack.