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		<title>MS-DEFCON 4: Get caught up on all Microsoft patches, except one</title>
		<link>http://www.askwoody.com/2011/msdefcon-4-caught-microsoft-patches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.askwoody.com/2011/msdefcon-4-caught-microsoft-patches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>woody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office Patches/Security]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[KB 949031]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft&#8217;s crop of March 2011 Black Tuesday patches has stabilized, and I recommend that you install them now.
I note with some glee that MS08-015 and MS08-016 patch Office 2003, Office 2000, and Office XP &#8211; all of which are beyond their support lifetimes. So even if you&#8217;re still using older versions of Office, you need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft fixes botched Outlook 2007 patch</title>
		<link>http://www.askwoody.com/2011/microsoft-fixes-botched-outlook-2007-patch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.askwoody.com/2011/microsoft-fixes-botched-outlook-2007-patch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>woody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office Patches/Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bat patch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KB 2412171]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outlook 2007]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A month ago, I talked about a botched patch that Microsoft slid out the Automatic Update chute. If you had Automatic Updates turned on, and you were using Office 2007, you got treated to KB 2412171, and it caused all sorts of problems.
Microsoft pulled the patch about a week later. Damage done to Automatic Updaters.
Now, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Word buffer overflows found in the wild</title>
		<link>http://www.askwoody.com/2010/word-buffer-overflows-wild/</link>
		<comments>http://www.askwoody.com/2010/word-buffer-overflows-wild/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>woody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office Patches/Security]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askwoody.com/?p=4118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And you thought that Word-based exploits were so last-century&#8230;
Microsoft Malware Protection Center blog reports that the Softies have discovered several bogus RTF files, in the wild, that can take over your PC. Here&#8217;s how it works:
You open a bogus RTF file. (RTF = Rich Text Format, an ancient file format that Word opens automatically.)
The RTF [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This month&#8217;s patches a real yawner</title>
		<link>http://www.askwoody.com/2010/months-patches-real-yawner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.askwoody.com/2010/months-patches-real-yawner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 04:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>woody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office Patches/Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows Patches/Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KB 978213]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KB 978542]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[May 2010 Black Tuesday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MS10-030]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re out. As expected, Microsoft released two Security Bulletins, and they&#8217;re both a bit less than compelling.
MS10-030 applies to Outlook Express (XP and earlier) and Windows Mail (Vista). If you&#8217;ve already upgraded to Windows Live Mail &#8211; and you should, you know &#8211; there&#8217;s a very tiny exposure, but nothing worth sweating about.
MS10-031 only applies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, details on the Custom XML modifications in Word 2007 effective January 10</title>
		<link>http://www.askwoody.com/2010/finally-details-custom-xml-modifications-word-2007-effective-january-10/</link>
		<comments>http://www.askwoody.com/2010/finally-details-custom-xml-modifications-word-2007-effective-january-10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>woody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office Patches/Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Custom XML]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[i4i]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patent infringement]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askwoody.com/?p=3430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I posted a rather detailed discussion of the Custom XML modifications that Microsoft was implementing in Word 2007, to comply with a court order that found MS violated a patent by i4i.
Now, at looooooong last, we have technical details about what&#8217;s changing in Word 2007 (and therefore in Office 2007). Knowledge Base article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Office 2003 bug locks you out of your documents</title>
		<link>http://www.askwoody.com/2009/office-2003-bug-locks-documents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.askwoody.com/2009/office-2003-bug-locks-documents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember Windows Rights Management Services, the Windows Server-based piece of %$#@! that companies use to lock up their documents, so you can&#8217;t get at certain documents on a server? The Wikipedia listing for WRMS describes it thusly:
Specific operations like printing, copying, editing, forwarding, and deleting can be allowed or disallowed by content authors for individual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avast! Ahoy me false positive hardies</title>
		<link>http://www.askwoody.com/2009/avast-ahoy-false-positive-hardies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.askwoody.com/2009/avast-ahoy-false-positive-hardies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avast is having a bad day. Seems its recent virus definition update started triggering all sort of false positives &#8211; incorrectly identifying good programs as malware. SANS Internet Storm Center puts it this way:
We have received a number of reports of Avast Antivirus false positives (Thanks Ken, Don,  Luca &#38; others).   With a recent update [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your biggest vulnerabilities aren&#8217;t what you think</title>
		<link>http://www.askwoody.com/2009/biggest-vulnerabilities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.askwoody.com/2009/biggest-vulnerabilities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>woody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office Patches/Security]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[0day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[SANS Institute just released a security vulnerability analysis covering real infections and vulnerabilities on 9,000,000 real computers at big companies. Interesting reading, with some surprising conclusions.
According to SANS:
Waves of targeted email attacks, often called spear phishing, are exploiting client-side vulnerabilities in commonly used programs such as Adobe PDF Reader, QuickTime, Adobe Flash and Microsoft Office. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which patches should I avoid?</title>
		<link>http://www.askwoody.com/2009/patches-avoid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.askwoody.com/2009/patches-avoid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>woody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office Patches/Security]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[KB 957789]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askwoody.com/?p=2870</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reader JB just wrote to say:
I know you listed what to patch and what not to patch, but I&#8217;m still confused. I don&#8217;t know much about computers so please bear with me. When I go to the update page there are several things listed under Microsoft Office 2007 updates, but they do not all have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MS-DEFCON 4: Get patched, but avoid these stinkers</title>
		<link>http://www.askwoody.com/2009/msdefcon-4-patched-avoid-stinkers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.askwoody.com/2009/msdefcon-4-patched-avoid-stinkers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>woody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office Patches/Security]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conficker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IE 8]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[KB 936929]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With ten patches on the way next Tuesday, and many of the problems with older patches fixed, it&#8217;s time to get patched up. Unfortunately, there&#8217;s a long list of  problematic patches that you should studiously avoid.
Here are the ones I suggest you pass by:
Windows Vista Service Pack 2/KB 948645 is causing problems. Dennis O&#8217;Reilly talks [...]]]></description>
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