[German]On September 23, 2019, Microsoft unexpectedly released unscheduled security updates for Windows Defender, Microsoft Security Essentials, other security products, and Internet Explorer, which is expected to close vulnerabilities.
[German]Last weekend Microsoft reported some known issues with Windows 10 version 1903 as fixed. Here is a brief overview, what we know about the issues, and what Microsoft wrote about.
[German]Good news for users of Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008/R2. Support for these operating systems is phasing out, but 0patch plans to continue providing security fixes after the End of Life (EOL).
Small addendum: Microsoft published the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18985 (from the development branch 20H1) for Windows Insider in the Fast Ring on September 19, 2019. This build should lead to another function update in spring 2020. The announcement with details about new features/changes and bugs can be found in the Windows Blog.
[German]Some users are facing issues with the Bluetooth A2dp profile. They are receiving an error message that Windows cannot verify the digital signature and the driver drops error code 52. In August 2019 a number of Windows 10 users seem to have been hit. Here is some information about the issue. Continue reading
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[German]Will Redmond offer a subscription version of Microsoft 365 for end users soon. This could be the case, because users have reported that their Office 365 subscription has been renamed.
[German]Google has released a security update to Chrome 77.0.3865.90 on September 18, 2019. This update patches 1 critical and 3 high-risk security vulnerabilities.
[German] Mozilla's developers have just (September 18, 2019) released version 69.0.1 of the Firefox browser. This is a maintenance update, which should fix bugs. Here is a brief overview of what changes in the new version. Continue reading
[German]A brief notification to Windows users (Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10): Microsoft released this week the anti-malware version 4.18.1908.7, which is used in Windows Defender and Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). The update of the anti-malware module should fix the issue when running the command sfc /scannow in Windows 10. But the update has broken the ability to Microsoft's antivirus solution, to scan files. A quick scan is now really quick – it ends after seconds and scans just five to 64 files. Addendum: Microsoft has fixed the issue (partially) with an update – see inside.
[German]Microsoft has released Defender Antimalware version 4.18.1908.7 (on Sept. 13, 2019). This update should also fix the error when executing the command sfc /scannow. Here is some information about this topic, which has not been documented by Microsoft and is quite confusing.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
