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Where we stand with the January 2020 patches

Posted on January 23, 2020 at 07:57 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

All in all, it’s been a relatively benign month.

If you got stampeded into installing the Chain of Fools/CurveBall CVE-2020-0601 patch, well, I won’t say I toldja so….

Details in Computerworld Woody on Windows.

We’re still on MS-DEFCON 2. There are many reasons for admins to get their systems updated – but those of us who are, uh, normal users have no need to panic.

Windows Patches/Security January 2020 Black Tuesday

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