Patch Tuesday – the second Tuesday in the month – is the day Microsoft (and other vendors) release their patches. If you want to be able to plan ahead for these dates ( like arranging holiday or sick leave ) these two functions will supply the dates to look out for.

Very important security updates are available for Windows and Office . These should be promptly applied to protect from exploits and malicious code that could be reversed engineered in the near future. Microsoft Security Updates – November 2009 https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-nov.mspx ISC – Excellent Summary of this month’s Patch Tuesday updates http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7564

Microsoft on Thursday said next week’s Patch Tuesday release will consist of six bulletins that address a total of 15 vulnerabilities in its Windows and Office products. According to Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Advance .

Tonight I went to the Microsoft Update site to install the Patch Tuesday updates on my notebook computer running WinXP SP3. I saw the updates; but before I installed them, I got a notification from Sun that a Java update was available. I decided to install that update first

Yesterday, the 13th of October, both Adobe and Microsoft released patches and fixes for their products. Adobe released 1 security bulletin that addressed a total of 29 security vulnerabilities

Adobe Systems Inc.

We are expecting 13 security updates from Microsoft and then security updates from Adobe for Adobe Reader and Acrobat on Oct. 13.

My IE 8 is set to go to Microsoft Update as Homepage, but, since shortly before Patch Tuesday last week, it cannot get there. IE 8 displays, first thing on starting, the page with message about downloading the latest Windows updater. This page says to click on the “Internet Explorer Information Bar” that is said to be seen “just below the

My IE 8 is set to go to Microsoft Update as Homepage, but, since shortly before Patch Tuesday last week, it cannot get there. IE 8 displays, first thing on starting, the page with message about downloading the latest Windows updater. This page says to click on the “Internet Explorer Information Bar” that is said to be seen “just below the

Usually, the Windows Update process works smoothly

There are 9 replies, with the last one on 07/28/2009 at 6:56:52 PM by Mark Minasi Quote: quote: Originally posted by timberk As a rule of thumb, wouldn’t it be the span of time from one Patch Tuesday to the next? Depending on whether they do an out of band release or not. ~tb Tim, that’s supposed to be one of the big benefits of clusters and failover