MS-DEFCON 2: Lots of little updates trickling in

For a couple of years, now, Microsoft has been dribbling out little updates for Vista on the fourth Tuesday of every month. Starting this month, the little dribble now includes Windows 7 as well.

If you see a notification for new updates that you haven’t seen before, it’s just the little guys knocking at your door. Ars Technica has details.

There’s nothing in the dribble that’s of any interest to most of you. Well, OK, if you fit the following description:

your Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 computer has an NVIDIA USB Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) chipset, at least 4GB of RAM, and while performing general I/O operations on an external USB device, such as copying data from the computer, either your computer stops responding or the copy operation stops abruptly.

For everybody else, it’s a yawner. We’re still at MS-DEFCON 2: Patch reliability is unclear. Unless you have an immediate, pressing need to install a specific patch, don’t do it.