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Title: Microsoft's October security updates now available Post by: Trippy on October 10, 2006, 10:16:47 PM http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
or http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-oct.mspx Lots of Critical updates this month, most of them involving Microsoft Office. Also today is the last day for support for XP SP1 -- i.e. this is the last set of patches for XP SP1. Edit: you can get the Office updates from here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/default.aspx Title: Re: Microsoft's October security updates now available Post by: Yegolev on October 11, 2006, 11:47:07 AM Also today is the last day for support for XP SP1 -- i.e. this is the last set of patches for XP SP1. Ah, that's why they put SP2 on my laptop last month. Figures. I wouldn't have minded so much except I was running a modified explorer.exe and, well, it "booted funny" after the update. Title: Re: Microsoft's October security updates now available Post by: Miasma on November 14, 2006, 06:18:45 PM Be careful downloading November's updates if you don't want IE7, if you use the default installation it tries to download and install it.
Title: Re: Microsoft's October security updates now available Post by: Engels on November 14, 2006, 11:02:46 PM Is this happening for real now? There was an earlier 'scare' about 2 weeks ago at work about the forced install of IE7, but its not occured yet.
Title: Re: Microsoft's October security updates now available Post by: Trippy on November 14, 2006, 11:29:11 PM Is this happening for real now? There was an earlier 'scare' about 2 weeks ago at work about the forced install of IE7, but its not occured yet. Microsoft made available a tool to corporate environments to disable the IE 7 automatic update but yes they are now pushing out IE 7 on AU.Title: Re: Microsoft's October security updates now available Post by: Engels on November 14, 2006, 11:33:30 PM How about a roll back to IE6 on particular workstations? I have an accounting supervisor who's gonna shit a brick tomorrow if IE7 is installed, since her earlier version of Quickbooks won't work with IE7.
Title: Re: Microsoft's October security updates now available Post by: Trippy on November 14, 2006, 11:53:58 PM How about a roll back to IE6 on particular workstations? I have an accounting supervisor who's gonna shit a brick tomorrow if IE7 is installed, since her earlier version of Quickbooks won't work with IE7. The beta versions of IE 7 were uninstallable but I don't know if the release version is. The tradition is to *not* let you revert back to an earlier version (e.g. if you upgraded from 5.5 to 6.0 you couldn't go back to 5.5 without reinstalling a version of Windows with 5.5 on it) but IE 7 is such a big change they may have decided in their infinite wisdom to let you revert back to 6.0.Title: Re: Microsoft's October security updates now available Post by: Roac on November 15, 2006, 05:43:43 AM IE7 shows as "Remove" under add/remove programs. Unsure if that'll revert or outright remove your browser, although the latter seems unlikely.
Title: Re: Microsoft's October security updates now available Post by: Trippy on November 15, 2006, 06:23:08 AM The beta version of IE 7 would revert you back to your previous version of IE if you uninstalled IE 7 so if the release version also shows up in Add/Remove Programs then it should do the same thing.
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