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January 2006 - Posts

Security Advisory posted: Win32/MyWife.E

Posted Tuesday, January 31, 2006 2:14 AM by stepto
Just as a followup to our last post, this evening we have posted a security advisory detailing what you can do to protect yourself from the Win32/MyWife.E worm (hint, don't open attachments!) as well as additional info on how to get cleaned from it if Read More...
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Win32/MyWife.E

Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 5:41 PM by stepto
Hi everyone, just wanted to quickly point out that the Anti-malware team has posted a short note on the Win32/Mywife.E mass mailer worm. Pretty much all current AV protects against this worm, so running updated anti-virus is an important thing to do. Read More...
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Trivia: security@microsoft.com and Windows development

Posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:56 PM by stepto
Why is security@microsoft.com an auto-responder and not a redirect to secure@microsoft.com? Well, security@microsoft.com is the Microsoft internal physical security alias, and has been since we started using email. As I am sure you can imagine, the amount Read More...
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Looking at the WMF issue, how did it get there?

Posted Friday, January 13, 2006 11:57 PM by stepto
Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here. Now that the monthly release has passed and people are deploying the updates I wanted to take a moment to discuss some things related to questions we’ve been receiving on the recent WMF issue. (Which was addressed in Read More...
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Security updates available on ISO-9660 image files

Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:43 PM by stepto
I wanted to let you know about a new offering that those of you enterprise customers that download multiple security updates in multiple languages might find useful. Starting with the January 2006 release, each month we're making security and high-priority Read More...
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MU and WSUS Information about Today's Bulletin Release

Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 7:16 PM by stepto
Hey folks – Mike Reavey here stepping in for Craig as he continues to work through some last minute issues on this Tuesday’s release. Today we’ve released two Security Bulletins. The first one, MS06-002 resolves a vulnerability in Font processing in Windows Read More...
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Information on new WMF Posting

Posted Monday, January 09, 2006 11:57 PM by stepto
Lennart Wistrand here. I wanted to write a few lines about the public post made over the weekend about a new specially crafted WMF image that could potentially cause the application using the Windows Graphics Rendering Engine to crash. As it turns out, Read More...
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Mike Nash on the Security Update for the WMF Vulnerability

Posted Thursday, January 05, 2006 8:08 PM by stepto
Hi there. Mike Nash from Microsoft here. For those of you who don’t know me, I am the Corporate Vice President responsible for security at Microsoft. Given the recent events around the Windows Meta File format vulnerability, an ongoing dialogue I have Read More...
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Microsoft Security Advisory on Win32/Sober

Posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 5:48 PM by stepto
Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here. There is a lot of activity happening within the MSRC this week so I wanted to make sure that, in addition to the guidance we’ve put out around the WMF vulnerability, that we also let you know that we’ve issued a security Read More...
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WMF Vulnerability Security Update

Posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 3:17 AM by stepto
Mike Reavey here from the MSRC- I just wanted to provide another quick update on the WMF vulnerability situation. Microsoft is continuing to work on finalizing a security update for the vulnerability in WMF that is currently being exploited by some malicious Read More...
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Updated Advisory: WMF Vulnerability

Posted Tuesday, January 03, 2006 3:59 PM by stepto
Hi folks- Kevin Kean here again. We here in the MSRC have been hard at work on this WMF vulnerability and so I wanted to provide you all with an update on the situation. When the MSRC learned of the attacks on December 27, 2005, we mobilized under what Read More...
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