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Revision Note: V1.0 (August 9, 2016): Click here to enter text. Summary: Microsoft is blacklisting some publically released versions of securekernel.exe. This advisory includes a list of hashes for specific operating systems that are on the blacklist Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (August 9, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure when Universal Outlook fails to establish a secure connection. Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (August 9, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow security feature bypass if an attacker installs an affected boot manager and bypasses Windows security features. Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (August 9, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Continue reading...
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Revision Note: V2.2 (August 9, 2016): For MS16-077, bulletin revised to include an additional vulnerability, CVE-2016-3299. This is an informational change only. Customers who have successfully installed the updates do not need to take any further action. Summary: This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for June 2016. Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (August 9, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Microsoft Edge. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. Customers whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users with administrative user rights. Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V2.0 (August 9, 2016): Bulletin revised to inform customers of additional security updates for Microsoft Office 2007 (3114893), Microsoft Word 2007 Service Pack 3 (3115465), Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack 3 (3115464), Microsoft Word Viewer (3115480), and Microsoft Word Viewer (3115479). The updates add to the original release to comprehensively address CVE-2016-0183. Microsoft recommends that customers running this affected software install the security updates to be fully protected from the vulnerabilities described in this bulletin. Customers running all other affected software who already successfully installe…
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Revision Note: V1.1 (July 29, 2016): For MS16-087, added a Known Issues reference to the Executive Summaries table. If you are using network printing in your environment, after you apply the 3170005 security update you may receive a warning about installing a printer driver, or the driver may fail to install without notification. For more information about the update and the known issue, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 3170005. Summary: This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for July 2016. Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.1 (July 26, 2016): Bulletin revised to add Updates Replaced information to all entries in the Affected Software table. This is an informational change only. Customers who have already successfully installed the updates do not need to take any action. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker with access to the local system executes a malicious application. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights…
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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.1 (July 18, 2016): Bulletin revised to add an Update FAQ to inform customers running Windows Server 2012 that they do not need to install the 3170377 and 3172727 updates in a particular order. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow Secure Boot security features to be bypassed if an attacker installs an affected policy on a target device. An attacker must have either administrative privileges or physical access to install a policy and bypass Secure Boot. Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.1 (July 18, 2016): Bulletin revised to add an Update FAQ to inform customers running Windows Server 2012 that they do not need to install the 3170377 and 3172727 updates in a particular order. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow security feature bypass if the Windows kernel fails to properly validate permissions. Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (July 12, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (July 12, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Microsoft Edge. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. Customers whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users with administrative user rights. Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (July 12, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in the JScript and VBScript scripting engines in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user visits a specially crafted website. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new acco…
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MPC Cleaner.
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Why Microsoft didn't find concrete solution on MPC Cleaner? Why Defender clean this virus? Continue reading...
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Windows Defender won't complete installing definition file
by Guest AlbertFroeschl- 0 replies
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Installation of definition file does not complete; get message: "The virus and spyware definition didn't update on 9/2/2016, 10:45 AM because of an Internet or Network connectivity problem." Error occurs after downloading and at the very end of the installation phase. I have no network problems with anything else. Even turned off the Firewall and reran update but received the same error. I should add I have WIndows 10, 32 bit, and my Windows Defender version is: 4.9.10586.0 Continue reading...
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How do I turn off the audio alert of "Found some malware?"
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Hi, I clicked something that turned on the audio of the malware alert. It is very annoying! How can I turn it off? Continue reading...
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Comparing Windows Defender and other Anti-Virus Products
by Guest KofiOffei-Nyako- 0 replies
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How effective is the in-built windows defender that comes with windows 10 as compared to the other antivirus programmes? [Original Title: WIINDOWS DEFENDER] Continue reading...
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I can´t found the av program to turn on the windows defender
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I need help how do i find a av program to unnistal and turn on windows defender Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (July 12, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure when Windows Secure Kernel Mode improperly handles objects in memory. Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (July 12, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The more severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an attacker is able to execute a man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack on a workstation or print server, or sets up a rogue print server on a target network. Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (July 12, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework. The vulnerability could cause information disclosure if an attacker uploads a specially crafted XML file to web-based application. Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (July 12, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The more severe of the vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to an affected system and runs a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerabilities and take control of an affected system. Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (July 12, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player when installed on all supported editions of Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows 10. Continue reading...
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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (July 12, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow Secure Boot security features to be bypassed if an attacker installs an affected policy on a target device. An attacker must have either administrative privileges or physical access to install a policy and bypass Secure Boot. Continue reading...
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