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Microsoft Races To Fix Massive Internet Explorer Hack

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tomos:
Wondering is there any way of easily checking what updates are installed? (in Win7, they show you a nice list after updating/rebooting, but I dont know how to access that)-tomos (May 02, 2014, 10:34 AM)
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Control Panel-->System and Security then look for View Installed Updates under the Windows Update section.
-Stoic Joker (May 02, 2014, 11:12 AM)
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thanks :up:

app103:
I don't understand why people keep calling this a Windows XP update. It's not. It uses the "Microsoft Update" automated update system to update a Microsoft product, namely IE. It's not an update to XP. It's an update to IE.
-Deozaan (May 02, 2014, 01:49 PM)
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Because if it were classified as a Microsoft update for IE, as you say, covering all installations of IE 6 through 11, then those running Win98/ME/2K/pre-SP3 XP, with IE6, would also receive that update, just like XP SP3 users with IE6...and they are not. So this is an XP SP3 update.  ;)

Innuendo:
I don't understand why people keep calling this a Windows XP update. It's not. It uses the "Microsoft Update" automated update system to update a Microsoft product, namely IE. It's not an update to XP. It's an update to IE.-Deozaan (May 02, 2014, 01:49 PM)
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Quit clouding the issue with facts. We people of the internet do not take kindly to people who cloud.  ;)

TaoPhoenix:
Quit clouding the issue with facts. We people of the internet do not take kindly to people who cloud.  ;)
-Innuendo (May 02, 2014, 09:59 PM)
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Heh that's just *made* for the Simpson's Homer voice!
:)

crabby3:
However, KB 2964358 is rated as "important" rather than "critical," even though it would seem that the issue is more serious than "important" suggests.
-cyberdiva (May 02, 2014, 08:54 AM)
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Vista is my poison and the update was listed as 'important' as well.  Though I don't recall ever seeing one labled 'critical'.  Just Important and Recommended.
Had to reset my Update History so it only goes back to December 2013 and Installed Updates doesn't list Importance so I may have had a Critical.

Moreover, this update was offered to me but not checked, which usually is a sign I shouldn't be quick to install it.
-cyberdiva (May 02, 2014, 08:54 AM)
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Mine was also unchecked.

Needless to say, I haven't yet installed it.   :huh: 
-cyberdiva (May 02, 2014, 08:54 AM)
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Why would one chose to ignore a security update for anything installed?   :huh:

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