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No problems here (so far) with these Office 2007 updates on Win7 x64 SP1. (Group B)

However, update history shows that many of these updates were released/installed twice:

(“Beveiligingsupdate”= Security Update)

“This would suggest that WD, when disabled by third-party AV, is not vulnerable? Or is that just wishful thinking?”

I had an online chat today with a Symantec rep and he assured me that it is patched by live update. Probably other av vendors will do the same.

For those who missed it:

Woody provided a link to an online Port 445 scanning tool in InfoWorld’s article ‘More Shadow Brokers fallout: DoublePulsar zero-day infects scores of Windows PCs’
“Chances are good that your local machine isn’t susceptible to getting infected directly from the internet, but it may be open to infections from other machines on your local network. If you want to see whether your tail is hanging out in the cloud, run Steve Gibson’s venerable ShieldsUP! Scanner.  Type 445 in the Input box, then click User Specified Custom Port Probe. If the scan comes up Stealth or Closed, you’re not vulnerable to being infected directly from the internet.”

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PKCano wrote:

WU DOES NOT offer the Security-only updates. If you install them, you also need the Cumulative Update for IE11 which is no longer a part of them. The Security-only patches ARE NOT cumulative, so you will need one for every month. You can down load them from the MS Update Catalog or find the links on AKB2000003 here on AskWoody. They have to be manually installed.

Thanks. I know, thanks to the Group B info

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MrBrian wrote:

This quote makes it seem that Group B may indeed be too complicated for some people…

Thanks for all the input about whether the Group B is valuable to home users. It depends on how you determine that group. Like I explained in my single comment, I’m a home user, but I use my pc for both work and play. (Work from home)
I’m kind of self-taught, but surely no real ‘techie’, nor do I have the budget to hire one. But my knowledge is sufficient to understand the information and advices/instructions given by Woody and you guys, and subsequently ‘do the right thing’. (Couldn’t do without it)

I think that if a home user ‘only’ runs Windows 7 Home, he/she will probably only do basic stuff with his/her pc, and therefore not have enough knowledge to understand the Group B stuff. Furthermore, he/she will probably never end up here at Woody’s.
If he/she’s working on Pro 7 AND has the wit to go search for good information on the web AND recognizes the value of the information given on this blog, it clearly shows he or she wants and needs the Group B-like set up.

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ebrke, HiFlyer

I’m a B-grouper and I find Woody’s and other people’s contributions very (and still) valuable.
I have a stand-alone Windows 7 Pro x64 pc which I use for both work and play, so being secure -without snooping practices from anyone- is essential to me.

Without all your input (on InfoWorld as well of course) , I would find it very hard to make the right choices between necessary and unnecessary updates. And it would take too much time as well.

So ‘Hooray’ for Group B!

BTW Woody, please know this blog is valued very highly and is often used as a reference here at home by users on sites like https://tweakers.net/ and https://www.security.nl/ every time they are facing the update conundrum.

P.S. Can anyone please confirm that WU does NOT offer any Security ONLY updates? Thanks.

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HiFlyer

No problems at all after April update msrt on Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 + Norton Security.

(Or should I say: ‘No problems so far’?)