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Microsoft patches critical vulnerabilities in January update
iTnews ^ | Jan 13 2016 6:55AM (AUS) | Juha Saarinen

Posted on 01/19/2016 6:56:29 PM PST by Utilizer

Microsoft's first Patch Wednesday update for the year has taken care of multiple vulnerabilities rated as critical.

No known exploits are available for the vulnerabilities, but Microsoft recommends that users apply the patches through Windows Update as soon as possible.

Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 see two common vulnerabilities and exploits (CVEs) fixed - CVE-2016-0002 and CVE-2016-0005 - as part of a cumulative update.

Supported version of the Windows client and server operating systems are all affected by the vulnerabilities, which Microsoft rates as critical and exploitable.

Microsoft's new Edge browser in Windows 10 is also being updated, with two critical vulnerabilites patched.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: computers; microsoft; patches; security
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To: RebelTex

Bad luck. Sounds like you have a problem or a virus in there, or something. I haven’t had any problems, except for those damned messages to get Windows 10. But I just close them. Takes a second.


21 posted on 01/20/2016 8:54:56 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

No viruses, just Wimdows Update wanting to install device drivers for devices it has detected, but the drivers are always for plug in devices, not integrated ones.

Example: graphics on a chip or audio on a chip instead of plug-in cards. Even though the chips have same capability of the same-named card, the busses are different and usually share allocated memory with system memory.

That means the drivers are slightly different, which MS disregards.

I have to hide those optional driver updates to keep my system files from being corrupted and crashing.

I could resort to PCIe video and sound cards - but I shouldn’t have to do that. (Then again MS forces a lot of more expensive choices on us.)


22 posted on 01/20/2016 10:47:34 AM PST by RebelTex
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