Updates For Tuesday April 13,1010

[Noreen]

Copied from American forum.

Adobe today announced plans to ship a critical security patch next Tuesday (April 13, 2010) to fix multiple high-risk security holes in its Reader and Acrobat product lines.

The patches will be released alongside a new automatic updater software that the company hopes will speed up the downloading and deployment of its security fixes.

The security fixes in this Reader/Acrobat patch batch will apply to Windows, Macintosh and UNIX users.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=6075&tag=nl.e550

Microsoft plans to release 11 security bulletins on Tuesday April 13, 2010 to fix 25 documented vulnerabilities that expose Windows users to remote code execution attacks.

Five of the 11 bulletins will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating. The flaws affect all versions of Windows, including the company's newest Windows 7 operating system.

The vulnerabilities will address security holes in Windows, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Exchange, according to Jerry Bryant, a group manager in Redmond's security response center.

[Rik]

Yippee, double downloads...

[Niall]

I'm not seeing any updates?

[Rik]

They should just about be available now, Niall.

[DorsetBoy]

6 for Windows 7 64bit.

[Niall]

Checking again now. {edit} 7 updates available now for my Windows vista 64 bit.

I did notice that there's another new version of NOD32 - 4.2.40 as the last was 4.2.35 that I installed last week.

Also, I've been getting a LOT of slowdown since installing the NOD32 4.2.35 but I also installed that Ad aware offer at the same time. One of them is slowing my system to a crawl. That being said, things seem a bit faster since updating NOD so I'll check tonight/tomorrow about that.

[Noreen]

Nine updates for Vista this morning.

[Rik]

Only nine, you got off lightly, Noreen.

[Glenn]

6 for W7 64 bit
2 for W7 32 bit

[Rik]

10 for XP SP3 plus 3 for Office.

[Simon]

They're getting them all in before they kill it. 

[Rik]

By the time XP is dead, so will my hardware be.

[Simon]

I thought it already was.   

[Rik]

It's only sleeping.

[Simon]

[Rik]

Exactly.

[kinmel]

The updates for Win7/64bit killed my main PC this morning the re-start endlessly displayed "Pre-configuring Windows  Do not switch off".

I had to force a rollback to get it working again

[Niall]

Nine updates for Vista this morning.

Yeah I had 7 as I posted last night, on reboot there were 2 more available. I wouldn't have noticed but NOD32 told me by being all yellow I like that. Strange that the windows site doesn't install and redirect you to the page like it used to after installing things that need further updates.

[Rik]

MS being thorough, Niall.