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• Hotfixes for IE 11 KB 3192665, KB 3185611, KB 3185614

  Posted on September 26, 2016 at 15:55 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Thanks to poster Jonathan Seymour:

  MS just released a new out of band non-security patch for Internet Explorer 11, responding to a bug in MS16-104, which breaks installation of Active X controls — specifically, the ActiveX Installer Service.

  Details about the problem in KB 3192665.

  The instructions are enormously hard to follow. Here’s my guess as to what it was supposed to say:

  If you have the original “RTM” Windows 10 build “1507,” you need to manually download and install KB 3193519.

  If you have the Fall Update, Win10 version 1511, you need to manually download and install KB 3193517.

  There is no indication I can see about your choices if you have the Anniversary Update, version 1607.

  It’s also worth noting that both of those KBs are up to revision 3.0. Something’s screwed up.

  For those of you running IE 11 on Win7 or 8.1, you need to download KB 3192665 from the Windows Update Catalog. Use this link:

  http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Rss.aspx?q=KB3192665

  Or download directly:

  Win7 x 64

  Win7 x32

  Win 8.1 x64

  Win 8.1 x32

  Of course, if you don’t use AXIS to install ActiveX controls, you have nothing to worry about.

  Windows Patches/Security KB 3185611), KB 3185614, KB 3192665

• Win10 cumulative updates just hit

  Posted on September 13, 2016 at 12:30 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  The Win10 update page lists:

  14393.187 (KB 3189866) – Anniversary Update 1607

  10586.589 (KB 3185614) – Fall Update 1511

  10240.17113 (KB 3185611)- RTM

  Barry Dorans (@blowdart) points to Microsoft Security Advisory 3181759, which says:

  Microsoft encourages all developers to update their packages, regardless of whether they use either View Components or the User property within them, to protect against future use of the components by either themselves or third-party software.

  If I read that correctly, if you have an ASP.NET Core app, you’re shafted – you need to recompile and redistribute the app.

  Windows Patches/Security 10240.17113, 10586.589, 14393.187, KB 3185611), KB 3185614, KB 3189866