PATCH WINDOWS 10 COMPUTERS NOW!!!!

[thewayne]

So first a little talk about version numbers. Programs are written with version numbers, which lets the company keep track of the source code that produced it. This lets them patch specific versions and proceed from known good points and also bring problematic code into the known good version. These numbers are incremented as the code continues to be written. I'm not going to provide examples of what version numbers look like as they vary from company to company.

I don't understand it completely, but something got screwed up with Microsoft's version numbers, some sort of crossover happened and the net result is that several programs went unpatched for several months this year. Thus, today's patch dump updates a lot of stuff going back literal months. And this stuff has been exploited, so this is important! The Krebs article has more information as to what programs were affected by this problem.

There are also updates for Windows 11, Krebs does not mention any exploits going on for that OS.

Also, Adobe patched their core products, but say that there were no known exploits going on.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/bug-left-some-windows-pcs-dangerously-unpatched/

Comments

[silveradept]

That's fantastic, but at least the system is now patched and up-to-date, for the occasional times that I might dip into it for whatever reason is needed. I'm mostly trying to get myself completely off Microsoft at this point, because while I still am okay with the need to run updates, Windows is much less a necessity for me and my entertainment choices now. I'll probably also move that install to 11 just because it's a good idea to keep things patched and up to date, but it's going to be very legacy in the future, hopefully.

[thewayne]

I don't know what the timeframe is for 12, I wish I did because I am really not too fond of 11.