• September 2021 – it’s patch day!

    Posted on September 14, 2021 at 12:53 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    This week is clearly “patch the zero day” week.  Yesterday we had Apple, also Chrome fix several zero days.

    Today we have the Microsoft version.  Now while Adobe doesn’t have any zero days in their release bundle, if you are (still) a user of Adobe Acrobat or Reader, you’ll be getting and wanting an update.

    Today we are fixing the Microsoft zero day MSHTML vulnerability I wrote about the other day. If you used the registry key to protect yourself, when I give the all clear I’ll remind you to undo that.

    One thing I’m not clear on from initial read of my usual sources of Dustin Childs and Bleeping computer is the situation with the print spooler. There are more print spooler bugs being fixed – but are they the ones we were concerned about that were carried over from prior months that kept me urging you to keep the print spooler service disabled? I’ll be digging into that question.

    Stay tuned, deeper analysis by this weekend.

    As always for those that DO have a backup, like to be the beta testers for the rest of us, do let us know of any issues you see. In the meantime I’ll be watching and accumulating the facts – and not the rumors – as we always do here on AskWoody.

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