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Windows XP won’t die in 2020
[German]Microsoft’s operating system Windows XP, which has long since fallen out of support, continues to run on millions of PCs. These are the new figures from NetmarketShare from August 2020. Here is...
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Patchday: Windows 10-Updates (September 8, 2020)
[German]On September 8, 2020 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft) several cumulative updates for the supported Windows 10 builds were released. Here are some details about the...
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Patchday: Windows 8.1/Server 2012-Updates (September 8, 2020)
[German]On September 8, 2020, Microsoft released various updates for Windows 8.1. These updates are also available for Windows Server 2012 R2. Here is some information about them. For Windows 8.1 and...
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Windows 10 20H2 Build 19042.508 (KB4571756) for Insider
[German]On Patchday (September 8, 2020) Microsoft released the update KB4571756 not only for Windows 10 Version 2004. The update is also available for Windows insiders in the Beta Channel for testing....
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Patchday: Updates for Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 (09/08/2020)
[German]On September 8, 2020 Microsoft released various (security) updates for Windows 7 SP1 (ESU) and Windows Server 2008 R2. Here is an overview of these updates. Updates for Windows 7/Windows Server...
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Windows 10: Changes in WSUS update scan
[German]With the September 2020 cumulative update for Windows 10, Microsoft introduced changes that improve the security of clients that scan Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) for updates. Here is...
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Does Update KB4571756 fixes the SSD defrag bug in Windows 10 V2004?
[German]In Windows 10 version 2004 there is the problem that SSD drives were optimized unnecessarily often by the Windows defragmentation. It looks like the cumulative update KB4571756 fixes this...
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Windows 10 Version 2004: Update KB4571744 blocks Sleep/Standby mode
[German]Users of Windows 10 version 2004 have been suffering for some time now from the fact that the sleep or standby mode may be blocked. The problem has been going on for some time and is likely to...
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Windows 10 2004: Update KB4571756 collides wit Paint Shop Pro 7
[German]I got a report, that cumulative security update KB4571756, released by Microsoft on September 8, 2020, causes Explorer issues and crashes when usein gPaint Shop Pro 7. Update KB4571756 for...
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Windows 10 Version 2004: Update KB4571756 breaks WSL 2
[German]There are reports that the cumulative update for the Windows 10 May 2020 Update (version 2004) from September 8, 2020 breaks the Windows subsystem for Linux (WSL 2). After installing the...
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Windows 10 V190x: Bitdefender Antivirus blocks Update KB4574727
[German]Users of Bitdefender antivirus protection have had a problem in Windows 10 190x. The security solution incorrectly blocked the Windows 10 cumulative update KB4574727 as malicious. Update...
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Windows 7 Sept. 2020 Updates: BypassESU v8 required
[German]Windows 7 SP1 users who want to continue to install the September 2020 security updates from the ESU program but do not have an ESU key will need an updated version 8 of the BypassESU solution....
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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20211 released
[German]Microsoft has released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20211 for Windows Insider on the Dev Channel on September 19, 2020. The announcement was made in the Windows-Blog, where you can read...
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Warning about a new Emotet-Ransomeware campaign (Sept. 2020)
[German]The cyber criminals behind the blackmail Trojan Emotet malware are currently running a new ransomware campaign. Security authorities in various countries are warning of new waves of attacks....
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0patch fixes CVE-2020-1530 in Windows 7/Server 2008 R2
[German]ACROS Security has released a micropatch for the vulnerability CVE-2020-1530 (Use-after-free bug in Windows Remote Access Phonebook) for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 (without ESU license). The...
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Windows 10 Build 20211.1005 (KB4581021) for Insider
[German]Microsoft has released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20211.1005 as an update (KB4581021 for Windows Insider in the Dev Channel. Addendum:The build has been pulled. The announcement of...
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Windows 10 V1607: Update KB4571694 creates ID 5827 events, bricks MMC
[German]Short question to administrators who are still using Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC V1607 or Windows Server 2016 Will the Event Viewer be flooded with Event ID 5827 entries when Update KB4571694...
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Windows 10 Version 1903: Support ends December 8, 2020
[German]A small reminder for users of Windows 10 version 1903, which was released in spring 2019 and reaches the end of its 18-month support period on December 8, 2020. I don’t know how many blog...
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Windows 10: Activated Hyper-V /Sandbox creates a 0-day Exploit
[German]A reverse engineer bumped a vulnerability in Windows 10 in conjunction with the Hyper-V/Sandbox feature. Activating Hyper-V or the sandbox opens a 0-day vulnerability that can be used to attack...
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Office 2016: Documents cannot be stored on network shares
[German]A German blog reader contacted me for an observation. He has been getting for weeks more and more messages from users in his enterprise network with Windows Server 2012, that Office documents...
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