[English]Another short addendum from last week. The developers of the e-mail client Thunderbird released version 68.12.1 of the e-mail client on October 1, 2020. This is a maintenance update for the 68 main version of the e-mail client, which was offered to me today.
[German]If you are annoyed by the Bing search in the Windows 10 start menu search, you can turn it off. For this purpose a registry key is available, which can be set via group policy or directly as an entry. Here are a few hints and a look at the facts and some explanation, why many internet tutorials don't always work.
[German]A short note for administrators who try to run Office modules in their environment both as Click-n-Run and MSI installations. This can lead to unstable Office installations, as I just learned from feedback from blog readers.
[German]What about the performance of new versions of Microsoft Office? Every new version has a bigger foot print and feels more sluggish. I have just seen an interesting evaluation of VMware for Office in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments that confirms this impression and I would like to share it with you.
[German]Cisco has already released critical security updates for its network operating system IOS XR on September 29, 2020. The updates close two vulnerabilities in the products that are classified as critical. It should therefore be patched as soon as possible.
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[German]Microsoft has released a PowerShell script package that allows installation images of Windows 10 and Windows Server to already have an updated Microsoft Defender. This should reduce the vulnerability of a new installation.
[German]The Emotet malware is distributed via spam email campaigns. A free service now makes it possible to check whether an email address has already been abused in such a campaign.
[German]Small message to Windows 10 users: Microsoft informed us, that the development of the Office Lense-App for Windows 10 will be stopped at the end of 2020.
[German]The HP Device Manager used to manage HP thin clients seems to have a backdoor in some versions in the form of a preconfigured user account in a database. This puts the underlying Windows at risk, because ist could be used by attackers to take control of the system.
[German]Brief information for people who still use Internet Explorer (mainly concerns company administrators). Malware has been discovered that exploits the Internet Explorer vulnerability CVE-2020-0968. Microsoft has issued a patch for it since April 2020.
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