First Patch for Windows 7 SP1 RTM Will Fix Critical Vulnerability

[JMH]

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]

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]

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

 

[vidanova]

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]

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]

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

 

[Orbital Shark]

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]

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! :shock: :devil:
More interesting that way!

Mike

 

[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! :shock: :devil:
More interesting that way!

Mike

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

:roflmao:

 

[Joan Archer]

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

 

[Hopalong X]

I agree get them as soon as possible.

I just couldn't resist another SP.

Mike

 

[Bill2]

This post is strictly for academic purposes.

Around a 100 post-SP1 hotfixes- not official or authorised or released by MS of course- are already known to exist. So for those complaining about numbers, thats the way to go. And yep, I would rather have them than not have.

 

[TVeblen]

I've got people who have not installed SP1 yet (and won't do so until I visit).

Questions that enter the mess we call my mind:

• Will these new Updates show up on their systems?
• Are there 2 versions of update, pre-SP1-post-SP1?
• And if not are non SP1 folks stuck in update limbo?
• If the updates do show up and they were to install them would that cause an issue with finally installing SP1?

I'm glad releasing updates is not my job!

 

[Orbital Shark]

If the updates are posted to the Windows Update server after SP1 then they will appear even after installation of SP1. You may sometime find (as I have in the past) that while there is an SP update available some updates don't appear as a just in case they're included in the SP.

 

[alphanumeric]

Release the patch now and then include it in service pack 2.
At some point Microsoft has to say thats it, no more updates or patches in this service pack release after this date. If they didn't the service pack would likely never get released. The amount of code in the OS and the ever increasing amount of people trying to find holes in it, means it is going to be updated and patched on a continuing basis. Microsoft does screw up from time to time, but to be honest its not all their fault. You can't test for a vulnerability that you don't know exists. The bad guys are always looking for new wrinkles in the software. How does that saying go, "always expect the unexpected".

 

[Skulblaka]

Why are you complaining?! Would you rather have Microsoft simply not care for its products? These updates, be grateful for them, it shows Microsoft cares for its products and isn't ignoring the vulnerabilities that could put you at a risk.

 

[NoN]

I've got people who have not installed SP1 yet (and won't do so until I visit).

Questions that enter the mess we call my mind:

• Will these new Updates show up on their systems?
• Are there 2 versions of update, pre-SP1-post-SP1?
• And if not are non SP1 folks stuck in update limbo?
• If the updates do show up and they were to install them would that cause an issue with finally installing SP1?

I'm glad releasing updates is not my job!

If they do not install SP1, i guess the only update they will receive is the SP1 itself.

Some of the updates that might be post-SP1 might show up aswell but this will depend on config.

There's two kind of updates, whilst you will not get some of the post-SP1 supposed to be real post-SP1 ones.

As exemple if you do grab a SP2 update on MS download center, you'll be able to install this one, and i do not think installing SP1 afterward would a real prob because it will surely make a difference between pre & post install, but it is not really advised to do so.

 

[Bill2]

Part of the impatience with updates/service packs stems from the enormous fuss that these create- they wont install or they'll break certain things. It would help if MS could come up with error messages in plain english so the user would know x file is missing or y is corrupted etc.

Then again, its a fact that windows is so highly tinkerable that user-created issues are responsible for a lot of problems.

 

[NoN]

Why are you complaining?! Would you rather have Microsoft simply not care for its products? These updates, be grateful for them, it shows Microsoft cares for its products and isn't ignoring the vulnerabilities that could put you at a risk.

I'm quit glad MS takes me for the average Joe and combine updates for me.
After it is another story between me & the OS!!

 

[Dave76]

Always good news to see updates, would rather get them than not.