Windows Server 2016: May 2018 Update bricks sfc

Posted on 2018-06-30 by guenni

[German]Just a brief message for administrators supporting Windows Server 2016 installations. A cumulative update from May 2018 causes the System File Checker command sfc to stop working. June 2018 update didn't fix this issue.

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Windows 7 Defender won’t receive updates (June 2018)

Posted on 2018-06-29 by guenni

Windows Update[German]Just a brief note: It seems, that Windows Defender won't receive automatic updates since a few days (June 18th 2018). But there are defender updates available, as a search for updates confirms. Here are a few details what I've found out so far.

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Windows 10 V1803: mstscax.dll and error 0x80071779

Posted on 2018-06-29 by guenni

[German]Windows 10 April Update (V1803) seems to have several issues in the area of the network and RDP connections. It seams that no NIC adapter bindings for the network can be uninstalled via GUI. Also RDP and the file mstscax.dll cause problems. Microsoft has described these two problems in KB articles and also provides workarounds.

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Windows Defender reports Trojans as false positives

Posted on 2018-06-28 by guenni

[German]Users of Windows seem to have been startled in the last few weeks by false alarms from Windows Defender. Defender suddenly believed to have detected the Trojan Win32/Bluteal.B!rfn in regular files.

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.SettingContent-ms files put Windows 10 at risk

Posted on 2018-06-28 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has introduced a new file format (.SettingContent-ms) for Windows 10 in 2015. However, this file format proves to be a weak point, as any commands and applications can be defined for execution via the underlying XML structures.

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Tor Browser 7.5.6 released

Posted on 2018-06-27 by guenni

SicherheitAfter the Mozilla developers released an update to Firefox browser 61 on June 26, 2018, the Tor project has followed and updated the Tor bundle to Version 7.5.6.

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Windows 10 V1803: Update KB4315567

Posted on 2018-06-27 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has released an ominous update KB4315567 for Windows 10 V1803 Enterprise on June 26, 2018. But what is behind this ominous update?

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PSA: Windows 10 V1803: Update KB4284848 brings SMBv1 fix

Posted on 2018-06-27 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has kept its word and delivered the fix for the broken SMBv1 protocol in Windows 10 April Update (V1803) with update KB4284848 in June 2018.

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Firefox 61 released

Posted on 2018-06-26 by guenni

MozillaMozilla's developers have released Firefox version 61 for Windows, Linux and macOS. Besides some improvements and support for TLS 1.3 there is also a dark theme in the browser.

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Windows 10 V1803: Update KB4284848 (June 26, 2018)

Posted on 2018-06-26 by guenni

[German]Microsoft released the cumulative update KB4284848 for Windows 10 April Update (V1803) on June 26, 2018. Here are some hints what the update changes. And there has been a Servicing Stack Update KB4338853 released for Windows 10 V1803.

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