Windows 10 forced upgrade to Windows 7? (Dec. 2019)

Posted on 2019-12-21 by guenni

[German]Could there be some sort of automatic upgrade from Windows 7 SP1 to Windows 10 again? Actually, I don't think so, but I'd like to post a recent case with the information available to me here in the blog.

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Run old and new Edge in Side-by modus

Posted on 2019-12-21 by guenni

[German]On January 15, 2020, Microsoft plans to ship the Chromium-based Edge Browser under Windows 10. Microsoft has now published a document that explains how to run both browser versions side by side.

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Adobe Reader DC 19.021.20061 Hotfix Update

Posted on 2019-12-21 by guenni

[German]A brief message for users of Adobe Reader DC under macOS and Windows. Adobe has provided a hotfix update that raises the Reader DC to version 19.021.20061. The update addresses some bugs in the product and is available for macOS and Windows.

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Thunderbird 68.3.1, support Upgrade from 60.x

Posted on 2019-12-20 by guenni

[German]The developers of the e-mail client Thunderbird have now released version 68.3.1. This is a maintenance update for the 68 main version of the e-mail client, which allows an update from version 60.x.

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Sysinternals tools modules updated (12/2019)

Posted on 2019-12-20 by guenni

[German]The Sysinternals tools are a small collection of helpful tools for Windows, which Microsoft employee Mark Russinovich offers for free and updates from time to time. In December, individual modules from this collection were updated.

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AdwCleaner 8.0.1 closes a DLL Hijacking vulnerability

Posted on 2019-12-19 by guenni

[German]On December 17/18 2019 the tool AdwCleaner 8.0.1 was released by Malwarebytes. This update fixes a DLL hijacking vulnerability I reported to the developers.

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WordPress 5.3.2 relased

Posted on 2019-12-19 by guenni

[German]The developers have released the night (December 18, 2019) WordPress 5.3.2. This is a maintenance update which fixes five issues in version 5.3.1 of WordPress. Details about the fixes can be found in the release notes. I was able to update two blogs here without any problems.

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Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) for Windows 7 receive definition updates after January 14, 2020

Posted on 2019-12-18 by guenni

[German]Microsoft made an U turn. If you run Windows 7 SP1 after January 14, 2020 and use the Microsoft Security Essentials as antivirus software, you will still receive signature updates (against the previous announcement).

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Microsoft's Chromium Edge will be distributed via update soon

Posted on 2019-12-18 by guenni

[German]Another brief message for people who are using Windows 10 and Edge Browser. Microsoft is ready to distribute the final version of the Chromium-based browser via update to supported Windows 10 platforms. This shall start in mid January 2020.

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Privilege-Escalation-Bug in VMWare

Posted on 2019-12-18 by guenni

[German]Is VMware virtualization software with VMware Tools installed on Windows systems? Then there is probably a Privilege Escalation vulnerability that can be used by attackers to increase their privileges. Addendum: The tweets announcing the bug were deleted now and the blog post was set to private invite only – but I had enough time to roughly sketch the vulnerability.

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