Skype Classic v7.x client; End of life extended …

Posted on 2018-08-06 by guenni

Skype[German]Microsoft now doesn't want to discontinue the classic Skype v7.x client. The Redmond based company granted a grace period to Skype v7.x client, in which the respective service will be continued.

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Thunderbird V60.0, released for download

Posted on 2018-08-06 by guenni

[German]Mozilla's developers have just completed the final of the Thunderbird 60 email client. This version is currently not distributed via update, but must be downloaded by the user.

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Remote Code Execution vulnerability in HP inkjet printers

Posted on 2018-08-06 by guenni

[German]Here is a security notification for users of HP inkjet printers. HP has discovered vulnerabilities in the firmware of various printers that allow remote code execution.

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Windows EOL dates differs for clients and servers

Posted on 2018-08-05 by guenni

[German]The End of Life (EOL) dates for Windows differs for clients and servers. A German blog reader pointed that out, and send me a raw EOL overview – pretty complex.

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A Virus infected fabs from iPhone Chip maker TSMC

Posted on 2018-08-05 by guenni

[German]According to press reports, the production facilities of the iPhone chip manufacturer TSMC were infected by a virus on Friday (August 3, 2018). The problem should be solved by today's Sunday.

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CCleaner 5.45 pulled and other peculiarities

Posted on 2018-08-04 by guenni

[German]A brief information for CCleaner users. AVAST/Piriform have withdrawn the latest version 5.45 of CCleaner. There was a lot of negative user feedback about V5.45 and it's telemetry. Based on a user's tip, I did a little research – and found some other things that are very strange (if I'm not completely wrong). Note: I've documented some things with screenshot, that may be found within my German blog post.

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Microsoft Azure Active Directory Connect V1.1.880.0

Posted on 2018-08-04 by guenni

[German]A short note for the administrators' weekend. On August 1, 2018, Microsoft released version V1.1.880.0 of its Microsoft Azure Active Directory Connect.

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Operating system shares on the desktop end of July 2018

Posted on 2018-08-03 by guenni

[German]July 2018 is over, and it's time to look at the figures for operating system distribution on the desktop and especially for Windows on early August 2018.

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Windows 10: Microsoft explains the update cadence

Posted on 2018-08-02 by guenni

[German]Microsoft is making another attempt to explain and familiarize administrators and users with the monthly update cycles for Windows 10. Some things were new for me, some words are sounding a a joke /slapstick in retrospect of July 2018 patches.

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AVAST CCleaner 5.45 and the telemetry thing

Posted on 2018-08-02 by guenni

[German]Security provider AVAST has released version 5.45 of the CCleaner (the product was taken over from Piriform). Version 5.45 comes with extended telemetry data acquisition, that caused a lot of negative feedback. Now AVAST explains the situation and promise amendments. Addendum: CCleaner version 5.45 has been pulled.

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