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Epic Patch Tuesday rolls a baker's dozen, including first Windows 7 RTM patches
by Lee Mathews Oct 9th 2009 at 12:00PM
It's not due to appear on stores for a few more weeks (or with major distributors like Synnex for a few more days), but the Windows 7 RTM is slated to receive a handful of critical fixes on Patch Tuesday next week.A total of five patches are slated for both the 32 and 64-bit versions of Windows 7. Only one of the updates is considered critical, however, and it actually targets a vulnerability in Internet Explorer and not Windows itself.
That's a sharp contrast to XP and Vista. Softpedia points out that six of nine flaws in XP and eight of ten in Vista are flagged critical.
In total, there are 13 updates coming out this Tuesday -- which could make for an interesting few days for any of you who happen to be Windows administrators.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ZeRo said 12:23PM on 10-09-2009
It's actually not that bad... just push the update with WSUS. Its not that hard... now if we had a zero day worm with "code red"/nimba capability... then I'd be worried.
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Brandscill said 2:03PM on 10-09-2009
I agree, thank god for WSUS, though it does take a long time to push them through all the systems. Spesh laptops which you can never be certain are on at the right times or not.
sRc said 12:28PM on 10-09-2009
an IE update as their first critical, not bad. IIRC the network stack vulnerability that extended back all the way to 2000 was Vista's first critical
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