Newsletter Archives

• MS-DEFCON 4: Beware of clickbait

  Posted on February 25, 2025 at 02:45 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 22.08.1 • 2025-02-25

  

  By Susan Bradley

  Don’t be taken in by ‘The sky is falling!’ headlines.

  It’s been my experience that what is purported to be news is often based on a limited number of users, not everyone on the planet. Based on my own research and testing, I’m comfortable in lowering the MS-DEFCON level to 4.

  As a small case study, consider that Will Fastie and I each have several Windows 11 PCs. During the month, we compare and contrast the news with what we are seeing on our own equipment. For the most part, we don’t see the effects described by those headlines.

  Anyone can read the full MS-DEFCON Alert (22.08.1, 2025-02-25).

  AskWoody Plus Alert, MS-DEFCON Alerts, CVE-2025-21420, HP printer, KB5014754, KB5050021, MS-DEFCON, MS-DEFCON 4, Patch Lady Posts, USB Audio, Windows 11 24H2

• Reports of problems with HP printers after installing the second Sept Win10 1903 cumulative update, KB 4522016

  Posted on September 26, 2019 at 15:42 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  From the Patch Management mailing list:

  FYI: I installed the updated Sept 2019 Cumulative Update for Win10 x64 [1903] and it broke me printing to a network HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M180NW.

  Since I also installed the Adobe Flash update, along with the .NET update for Sept 2019 at the same time, I thought it may be one of those, but through uninstalling all, and installing 1 at a time (Cumulative last) and testing printing between reboots, it was isolated to this update.

  I have since uninstalled KB4522016 (the update with the IE Zero-Day patch) and installed the KB4515384 predecessor and all is well.

  The problem’s been confirmed.

  That’s the second problem I’ve seen with the stunted IE-only patch KB 4522016.

  We’re still waiting to see if the third September cumulative update for 1903 will have the same problems.

  Windows Patches/Security HP printer, KB 4522016, September 2019 Black Tuesday