Microsoft Set To Release Seven Security Patches And Updates

WingaWinga MrSouth Africa Icrontian
edited July 2006 in Science & Tech
Microsoft has given advance notification that it will be releasing seven security updates on July 11th.

As part of the monthly security bulletin release cycle, Microsoft provides advance notification to their customers to help them plan for the deployment of these security updates more effectively.
On 11 July 2006 Microsoft is planning to release:

Security Updates

• Four Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows. The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and the Enterprise Scan Tool. Some of these updates will require a restart.

• Three Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Office. The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer. These updates may require a restart.

Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool

• Microsoft will release an updated version of the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool on Windows Update, Microsoft Update, Windows Server Update Services and the Download Center.

Note that this tool will NOT be distributed using Software Update Services (SUS).
Source: Microsoft

Comments

  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    This puts Windows XP at about 51 updates since SP2. Can we get a rollup?
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Can we get SP3? :P
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Not yet. Has anyone M$ said if SP3 is going to include any more features, or is it just going to be a lot of stability/security fixes?
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Well first it was just a usual SP, then it was the new filesystem and DX10, now it's back to being just the new filesystem and usual SP'yness.
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    We are getting the new file system? I thought that was gonna be a vista only thing, I heard they moved Dx10 to vista only, which kind of chaffed my ass.


    I guess this answers my questions:
    Windows XP SP3 to arrive before Longhorn

    Longhaul fright

    By Wil Harris: Monday 02 May 2005, 11:16
    A BLOG filing hidden away in the cobwebbed corners of the web suggests that Windows XP SP3 will hit before Longhorn does.

    The blog is written by the guys at F-Secure. The information was handed out by Steve Ballmer, and the event was Surfa Lugnt, also known as Swedish National Data Security Day.

    Ballmer allegedly also said that IE7 would have anti-phishing technology built in.

    No-one really knows what SP3 will contain. It probably can't contain anything huge, since the next wave of upgrades due to be ported back to XP - the Aero UI, the file system and the like - won't be done until Longhorn is done. It seems likely that it will just be IE7 and some security features.

    The comments come after Bill Gates mentioned at WinHEC that Longhorn would definitely be done by the end of 2006. We'd estimate that they clearly don't anticipate it getting done much before that. µ
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