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MS-DEFCON 2: Keep the May 2019 patches off your machine for now

Posted on May 13, 2019 at 07:43 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

Tomorrow’s Patch Tuesday and, if it’s like other Patch Tuesdays for the past year or two, it’ll be accompanied by howls of pain.

Don’t be an unpaid beta tester. Get Windows Update locked down.

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

Full details in Computerworld.

Windows Patches/Security May 2019 Black Tuesday, MS-DEFCON 2

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