Category Archives: Update

Symantec/Norton blocks Windows Updates (SHA-2)

[German]Users of Windows systems that have Symantec Antivirus or Norton Antivirus installed are running into trouble as of August 2019-Patchday. These antivirus solutions are blocking the delivery of security updates signed with SHA-2 only, at least on Windows 7 SP1 … Continue reading →

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Windows: Critical Patches (CVE-2019-1181/CVE-2019-1182) August 13, 2019

[German]As of August 13, 2019 (2nd Tuesday of the month, Patchday) Microsoft has released a series of security updates. These include extremely critical updates that close vulnerabilities exploitable by computer worms (CVE-2019-1181/CVE-2019-1182).

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Patchday Windows 10 Updates (August 13, 2019)

[German]On August 13, 2019 (second Tuesday of the month, patchday at Microsoft), several cumulative updates were released for the supported Windows 10 builds. Here are some details about each update.

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Patchday: Updates for Windows 7/8.1/Server (August 13, 2019)

[German]On August 13, 2019, Microsoft released various (security) updates for Windows 7 SP1 and other updates for Windows 8.1 as well as the corresponding server versions. Here is an overview of these updates.

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (August 13, 2019)

[German]As of August 13, 2019, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, Office, etc. Here is a compact overview of these updates.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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CCleaner v5.60.7307 released

[German]Today a blog post about CCleaner. There is an update to version v5.60.7307, that has been released on July 2019. Here are a few details about this free software for Windows.

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Security update Chrome 76.0.3809.100

Google has released a security update to Chrome 76.0.3809.100 on August 6, 2019. This update fixes a vulnerability that would have allowed the adoption of a system.

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Microsoft Office Patchday (August 6, 2019)

[German]On the first Tuesday of the month (Office Patchday) on August 6, 2019, Microsoft released a number of non-security updates for various versions of Microsoft Office that are still supported.

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Surface Firmware Update causes WiFi issues

[German]Microsoft offers a firmware update for various Surface devices. If this is installed, some users will experience problems with the stability of the WiFi connection. Here is some information about this topic.

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Windows 10: Compatibility Update KB4023057 (08/01/2019)

[German]As of August 1, 2019, Microsoft has released a new version of the reliability update KB4023057 for Windows 10, version 1507 to version 1803. Here are a few details.

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