Protecting yourself against Aurora

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Windows Secrets Newsletter just hit the stands, and the lead story by Yardena Arar has many details about the “Aurora” security hole. There are ways t
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The IE security patches from MS Security Bulletin MS10-012 are out now. IE 5.01 SP4 for Win2000 SP4 IS also affected and there’s a patch for that one too.

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MS10-012 is the number from Microsoft but what is the equivalent KB number for Windows Update.

I have received two Important patches
1- Update for Microsoft Silverlight (KB979202) don’t think it is one – issued 19/01/2010

2- Security Update for Windows7 (KB972270) issued 12/01/2010

I use Win7

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Bob

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Bob –

It’s MS10-002, KB 978207. The Silverlight patch is inconsequential. Don’t install any of them yet.

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About Silverlight — it allows the storage of “super cookies” like Flash Player now uses. These are not cleared out by cleaning the browser cookies or caches, and CCleaner does not say it can clean them either. Neither can Firefox Better Privacy add-on. Not the kind of thing I want on my computer.

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