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Microsoft's 2nd Security Bulletins for January

by Donna Buenaventura Jan 10, 2006 3:27AM PST

As scheduled, Microsoft released its' second security bulletins for January affecting Windows systems, Exchange and Office applications.

2 Critical Bulletins:

MS06-002 - Vulnerability in Embedded Web Fonts Could Allow Remote Code Execution (908519)

MS06-003 - Vulnerability in TNEF Decoding in Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Could Allow Remote Code Execution (902412)

Bulletin Summary at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/...n/ms06-Jan.mspx

As always, download the updates only from the vendors website - visit Windows Update and Office Update or Microsoft Update websites or by using Windows' Automatic Updates functionality.

Tomorrow, Microsoft will host a webcast on the above security bulletins. The webcast focuses on addressing your questions and concerns about the security bulletins. Therefore, most of the live webcast is aimed at giving you the opportunity to ask questions and get answers from their security experts.

Start Time: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 11:00 AM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
End Time: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:00 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

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Some notes:

by Donna Buenaventura Jan 10, 2006 4:09AM PST

1. The first security bulletin was released on January 5th, please read more about it here

2. There is a delay with Microsoft's software update distribution, please read about it in Microsoft Security Response Center's blog

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For some reason

by Alan Copeland Jan 10, 2006 8:36AM PST

all updates fail to install unless I turn off Zone Alarm. I have a firewall in my router so this isn't that big a deal. It does not happen on my other PC. I went to MS support in November with this issue and they had me run some fix which apparently isn't fixed.

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