[German]Google has once again had to remove 16 Android apps from a Google Play Store. The reason: The apps contain a "clicker malware" that is designed to commit advertising fraud. Apparently useful apps (flashlight, QR code, photos/camera) that had been downloaded by more than 20 million users were affected.
[German]Adobe has released Adobe Acrobat (Reader) DC 2022.003.20263 as a hotfix on October 22, 2022. According to the telease notes , it fixes the installation error "2251.Database: Transform" that may occur during the October 11, 2022 update. I had mentioned the problem in the blog post Adobe Acrobat (Reader) DC 2022.003.20258; Installer Error 2251.Database: Transform. A reader wrote recently, that Adobe has indentified the root cause and released a fix for internal tests. That's now the relevant hotfix.
[German]Microsoft has released in stable and extended stable channel an update to Edge 106.0.1370.52 (October 20, 2022). It's a bug fix update, in the release notes it says: Fixed various bugs and performance issues for Stable and Extended Stable release.
[German]After Microsoft has officially released Windows 10 version 22H2 and distributed it via Windows Update, the question is "which tools have been updated for this new Windows version"? There is an Enterprise Evaluation version that has been updated, the Group Policies have also been updated and so on. Here's an overview, what Microsoft has prepared.
[German]Various VMware products contain the critical vulnerability CVE-2022-22954 , for which a security update was provided back in April 2022. I had addressed the vulnerability in the blog post Warning: critical vulnerabilities in VMware products (April 6, 2022).
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[German]Another little hint on Sunday. Microsoft's developers store the passwords for accessing IMAP accounts for Outlook in the registry. Is indeed DAPI-encrypted, but can be decrypted in the system with an API call. This approach is also used by tools to determine the password.
[German]Brief note to administrators who are deploying installations of Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022. A blog reader pointed out a bug to me that he noticed during setup. During installation, you can set a password for the administrator, but some password patters are is not saved.
[German]Microsoft is currently reporting various issues with the OneDrive for Business Sync Client. These range from problems when logging off, to the synchronization of a Teams website that does not end, to the problem that the OneDrive for Business Sync Client cannot be uninstalled. The whole thing is probably related to the (problematic) Windows security update KB5018410. Microsoft is currently working on a fix.
[German]Oracle's developers had just released VirtualBox version 7.0.0 (VirtualBox 7.0.0 with Secure Boot and virtual TPM support), and now they have already pushed an update to version 7.0.2. This version is a maintenance update for bug fixes.
[German]As of October 17, 2022, Microsoft has released several unscheduled updates for Windows. These updates fix a connection problem that can occur with SSL and TLS connections. Affected by this problem are probably all Windows client and server. Below I have listed all available updates and also give some hints where problems occur without these updates.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
