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Microsoft Security Updates
« on: Aug 20th, 2003, 9:00pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
August 20, 2003
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SECURITY BULLETIN MS03-033
 
Please review Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-033
"Security Update for Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC)"
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=223495
 
WHY WE ARE ISSUING THIS UPDATE
A security issue has been identified in Microsoft Data Access  
Components (MDAC) that could allow an attacker to compromise  
a Microsoft Windows(R)-based system and then take a variety  
of actions, including executing code. You can help protect  
your computer by installing this update from Microsoft.
 
PRODUCTS AFFECTED
Microsoft Data Access Components 2.5 (included with Windows 2000,  
Microsoft Office 2000 SR1 and later, and Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 7.0
Service Pack 2 and later)  
Microsoft Data Access Components 2.6 (included with SQL Server 2000)
Microsoft Data Access Components 2.7 (included with Windows XP
and Microsoft Visual Studio(R) .NET)  
 
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SECURITY BULLETIN MS03-032
 
Please review Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-032
"Security Update for Microsoft Internet Explorer"
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=223496
 
WHY WE ARE ISSUING THIS UPDATE
A number of security issues have been identified in  
Microsoft Internet Explorer that could allow an attacker to
compromise
a Microsoft Windows-based system and then take a variety  
of actions. For example, an attacker could run programs on  
a computer used to view the attacker's Web site. This vulnerability  
affects computers that have Internet Explorer installed. (You do not
have to be using Internet Explorer as your Web browser to be affected
by this issue.) You can help protect your computer by installing  
this update from Microsoft.
 
PRODUCTS AFFECTED
Internet Explorer 5.01  
Internet Explorer 5.5  
Internet Explorer 6.0
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Re: Microsoft Security Updates
« Reply #1 on: Aug 21st, 2003, 11:36am »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Gosh, I am surprised... Shocked
 
Having just installed a set of W2k3 servers, (only been switched on for 3 weeks) there seems to be a never-ending stream of fixes for this latest system. After all the rest (win95 and up) I shouldn't expect anything less!!!!!
 
All this seemed to be covered by the August Cumulative Patch (4.1MB...) for IE.
 
Still - great heads-up - I hadn't done the IIS server for a week and it's got a stack to wade through right now!
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Re: Microsoft Security Updates
« Reply #2 on: Aug 21st, 2003, 6:27pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Well at least they no longer wait until forever to do an update, but you might want to consider enabling their auto update but set it for notification only.  I have been thinking about that myself.
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Re: Microsoft Security Updates
« Reply #3 on: Aug 22nd, 2003, 2:08pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
on Aug 21st, 2003, 6:27pm, Jamming wrote:
Well at least they no longer wait until forever to do an update, but you might want to consider enabling their auto update but set it for notification only.  I have been thinking about that myself.

It wouldn't work on the school system as every PC has to log into the Leeds city WAN. There's a block on holding the connection open - the longest is 35 mins without manual refreshing of the settings.
 
However, each time someone logged on to the Internet on the server, it would look and notify. the only thing is, logging on the Internet (as opposed to the WAN) on a server is normally only done to update stuff anyway! I'll see if there's anyway the city can hold a Critical Updates list that we could access without needing to provide username and password (similar to the scripted updates for Sophos).
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