If you are (still) using Internet Explorer: (a) Why?? (b) You NEED to close an ACTIVELY exploited hole ASAP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2719615
Also affects certain versions of Microsoft Office and Works. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like there's a "fix" via Windows Update yet. The "Fix It" button on the referenced link should provide a work around until a fix is pushed via Update.
Lots of critical MS updates today including what appears to perhaps address what ethics references. The update for it is KB2699988. Isn't this an update for the problem mentioned. Or does it not fix the problem referenced?
Looks like it... Thank God because that's one nasty shit. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-037
I had a bunch of updates last night after I got home, but I was too tired to see what they were then, and too busy for most of today. If you find anything, let me know what the number of the update is. Thanks. BTW, I was having problems with Firefox for some time before I went back to IE. It was posting messages announcing it was embarrassed because it couldn't do this or that. Then I saw your recommendation of the latest IE version, so I decided to go back to it. You and Leon don't seem to agree on the merits of IE though.
The latest and greatest IE is above and beyond better than the previous versions, but you'll still never catch me using it.
For me there were "critical" updates on Tuesday, about 19 I think. Yesterday when I went on my PC there were 26 new updates totally nearly 500 MB all though it appeared they were mostly if not all for a new MS Office I installed. So if my experience is applicable the global updates for Windows on Tuesday were those 19 if one had been staying current with updates. (The usually are released by MS on Tuesdays.)
Run Winderz Update to make sure. But from what I can see, the XML Core Services issue still has not been fixed with a released update yet.
I wouldn't know XML Core Services if I sat on it, so maybe I can wait for the fix. I have automatic updating, but tomorrow I'll check. Thanks.
I cross referenced the KB articles with the latest round of updates, and the big one remains unfixed via Windows Update. However, if you go to the link that Leon post in the original post, there's a button on the page that allows you to "fix" your installation until Microsoft comes out with a released fix via Windows Update.
Thanks, Tom. Will do that tomorrow. I'm just sort of coasting along today in recovery mode. We got up at 5 a.m. yesterday morning in Klamath Falls, OR, and arrived home in early evening.
I'm confused. ethics make the op with a link about a security problem pertaining specifically to IE. You have a follow up post saying the problem ethics posts about also affects certain versions of MS Office. Then last Tuesday MS Updates had a lot of critical updates including the fix KB2699988 I then ask ethics if that fix addresses the problem he references and he says it does. As I understand your current POV disagrees with ethics POV. You seem to say that the update KB2699988 doesn't fix the problem that ethics warned us about. You state that the problem can as of now only be fixed by going the "Fix it" link on the page linked by ethics. I am hesitate in my naitivity and user experience to click on the any of the fix it button as to my uncertainty to its need and what happens or will be required of me after I "start" some process by clicking on the "Fix it." So what's the deal? ADDENDUM: I have no idea what Winderz is that you refer too. Maybe I'm the only member that is clueless there but I'm stuck with what I've got.
No, KB2699988 does not address the XML Core System issue. The updates released last week were for other security holes. KB2719615 is the update you want to keep an eye out for. To see exactly what this particular issue affects, go here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2719615
I maintain what i said before, the update, does in fact, take care of the IE remote problem http://security.unt.edu/vulnerabilities/windows
