Windows 7 - First Patch for Windows 7 SP1 RTM Will Fix Critical Vulnerability

JMH · 03-04-2011

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In less than a month after the general availability deadline of Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Microsoft is preparing to release the first update designed to resolve a Critical security vulnerability in the upgraded copies of Windows Vista’s successor.

As part of the company’s normal patch cycle, this month’s security bulletins will be released on March 8th at 10:00 a.m. PST.

Only customers running Windows and Office will need to apply the patches, with those leveraging the operating system having to treat one of the security bulletins as a priority when it comes down to deployment.

“This month we'll release three bulletins, one of them rated Critical and two rated Important, addressing issues in Microsoft Windows and Office. We'll close four vulnerabilities with those bulletins,” revealed Angela Gunn, security response communications manager, Microsoft.

First Patch for Windows 7 SP1 RTM Will Fix Critical Vulnerability - Softpedia

KazeNoKoe23 · 03-04-2011

Not to nitpick (at MS, not at you, JMH), but how many updates has 7 (or for that matter, Vista) gotten that were labeled as "Critical" on Windows Update? I know MS has 1 or 2 or more updates labeled as Critical every month in their monthly Patch Tuesday report, but when the updates show up on Vista/7 Windows Update, they seem to be downgraded to "Important".

pparks1 · 03-04-2011

This is the first critical since SP1 was released like 10 days ago.

vidanova · 03-06-2011

Never understand microsoft, if these faults were on a car we would all be dead by now. Please release programs when you sort them out better, for a worlds leader in computing etc its p - - s poor

Airbot · 03-06-2011

Would you rather them just ignore holes in security when they find them and give out the update to patch them months later or never? Gimme a break.

seekermeister · 03-06-2011

It may be the first, but I'm sure that it won't be the last.

Orbital Shark · 03-06-2011

The biggest issues are that there are 1000s (if not 10,000s) of people out there writing Virus/Malware apps to combat certain security systems. They are also writing new codes to take advantage of most other apps that people use on a daily basis (Office, Browsers etc.). MS are having to write new updates to combat the ever evolving Virus/Malware programmers.

I for 1 am thankful to receive these updates sooner rather than later

Hopalong X · 03-06-2011

Quote: Originally Posted by Orbital Shark

I for 1 am thankful to receive these updates sooner rather than later

They could just save up the critical ones and release them as a service pack!

More interesting that way!

Mike

Orbital Shark · 03-06-2011

Quote: Originally Posted by Hopalong X

Quote: Originally Posted by Orbital Shark

I for 1 am thankful to receive these updates sooner rather than later

They could just save up the critical ones and release them as a service pack!

More interesting that way!

Mike

While in the meantime, hackers are gaining control over more and more of our systems

Joan Archer · 03-06-2011

Well said Jeff, I agree it's better to have the updates as soon as possible rather than leave them causing more damage.