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Title: Patch Tuesday critical fixes for July 2012
Post by: Clive on July 11, 2012, 14:21

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/07/10/patch-tuesday-critical-fixes-for-july-2012/?utm_source=Naked+Security+-+Sophos

Title: Re: Patch Tuesday critical fixes for July 2012
Post by: Rik on July 11, 2012, 16:29

Time I did something...

Title: Re: Patch Tuesday critical fixes for July 2012
Post by: Clive on July 11, 2012, 20:47

I risked my netbook.   :laugh:

Title: Re: Patch Tuesday critical fixes for July 2012
Post by: Clive on July 12, 2012, 12:37

The netbook running Windows 7 starter was fine but the laptop running Windows 7 premium was trashed and refused to start up.  I had to carry out a system restore to get it booted up.  Yet again MS is using us as guinea pigs. 

Title: Re: Patch Tuesday critical fixes for July 2012
Post by: Simon on July 12, 2012, 14:40

My XP machine seems to have survived, despite M$'s best efforts. 

Title: Re: Patch Tuesday critical fixes for July 2012
Post by: Clive on July 12, 2012, 20:46

I haven't done my XP machines yet.

Title: Re: Patch Tuesday critical fixes for July 2012
Post by: Den on July 12, 2012, 21:47

Updated both of my W7 machines with no problems  ;D

Title: Re: Patch Tuesday critical fixes for July 2012
Post by: sam on July 12, 2012, 23:24

Hmm I should do this too.

Title: Re: Patch Tuesday critical fixes for July 2012
Post by: Simon on July 13, 2012, 00:02

I say mine survived - it was really slow this evening, with the hard drive churning away for about half an hour, then it took about 6 minutes to shut down.  :bawl:

Title: Re: Patch Tuesday critical fixes for July 2012
Post by: Clive on July 13, 2012, 15:26

I noticed that it downloaded IE9 which might be the culprit.  Can you uninstall it since you are unlikely to use it?

Title: Re: Patch Tuesday critical fixes for July 2012
Post by: Simon on July 13, 2012, 16:07

I don't think IE9 would have been downloaded, as it's not XP compatible, as far as I believe. 

Title: Re: Patch Tuesday critical fixes for July 2012
Post by: Clive on July 13, 2012, 21:54

It was downloaded on my Win 7 laptop for certain.  But I understand it's almost impossible to remove.

Title: Re: Patch Tuesday critical fixes for July 2012
Post by: Simon on July 13, 2012, 23:02

Still IE8 on here.  :)

Title: Re: Patch Tuesday critical fixes for July 2012
Post by: sam on July 14, 2012, 20:35

Yeah. You have to go into the windows packages

Title: Re: Patch Tuesday critical fixes for July 2012
Post by: Simon on July 14, 2012, 21:01

My problem might have been because I moved a lot of files the other night, to free up some drive space. I did a defrag today, and that seems to have had a small positive effect.

Title: Re: Patch Tuesday critical fixes for July 2012
Post by: Baz on July 15, 2012, 11:06

do you not get the option of downloading IE9......or not   :dunno:

Title: Re: Patch Tuesday critical fixes for July 2012
Post by: Simon on July 15, 2012, 11:39

Don't think so.  Not unless you've got Vista onwards. 

Title: Re: Patch Tuesday critical fixes for July 2012
Post by: Clive on July 15, 2012, 20:40

You can download them manually by just ticking the updates you require.  If you refuse an update more than a couple of times it assumes you don't require it.