[German]Microsoft upgrades its Office 365 suite against malware and macro-virus threats. The Office 365 modules (Word, Excel etc.) receive an Anti Malware Scan Interface (AMSI for virus scanners to scan the documents..
Strange things happened within the Microsoft Update Catalog. As Woody Leonhard mentioned at askwoody.com, the number of September 2018 updates went down from 127 items down to 126 entries on September 13, 2018. And Windows 10 V1803 Servicing Stack Update (SSU) KB456655 has been re-published.
Some unofficial repositories for the Kodi open source media player deliver cryptomining malware for Windows and Linux platforms in a modified add-on. Here are a few details.
Microsoft released cumulative update KB4463376 for Internet Explorer 11 on September 14, 2018. The fix: Internet Explorer performance decreases when you use roaming profiles or do not use the Microsoft compatibility list. The update is available only through the Microsoft Update Catalog for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. (via)
[German]Microsoft has released a set of microcode updates for various Windows 10 builds. These updates are intended to protect various processors against the Spectre V2 vulnerability. Here is some information about the updates, as well as chaos in the KB descriptions. There is also an addendum about WSUS and (revised) microcode updates, which should not have been delivered, but which are now available again.
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[German]Does Windows 10 throw error code 0x80246010 during update installation and aborts this step? This article tries to give hints on how to fix the update error 0x80246010.
[German]It seems that Piriform's CCleaner will be forced to be updates from old version 5.38 to version 5.46 – and the telemetry settings are switches on by default.
[German]As of September 11, 2018, Microsoft has released a new batch of updates for Windows and other products. Update KB4457144 for Windows 7 SP1 may issue error 0x8000FFFF. Addendum: The reason for this error and a simple fix has been found. KB4457128 for Windows 10 version 1803 is installed twice if necessary, and WSUS has detection problems.
[German]On September 11, 2018 Microsoft released several (security) updates (KB4457144, KB4457145 ) for Windows 7 SP1 and further updates (KB4457129, KB4457143) for Windows 8.1 as well as the corresponding server versions. Here is an overview of these updates.
[German]In September 2018, Microsoft published new documents that describe in more detail the criteria according to which security updates for Windows are developed.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
