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    11 Security Updates in one day?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Fat Dragon, Oct 12, 2010.

  1. Fat Dragon

    Fat Dragon Just this guy, you know?

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    I shut down my computer yesterday afternoon (China time), so any automatic updates that were around then would have been installed. I shut it down again about 15 minutes ago to bring it to work, and there were 14 important updates to install - 11 security updates (9 for Windows, 1 for .NET v4, 1 for IE8), an update for Windows 7 x64, the October version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool, and a client update for Microsoft Security Essentials.

    That's a lot of updates to pick up in a couple hours. Did my computer's automatic update get behind and just catch up this morning, or did Microsoft actually issue all of these 14 updates within the span of a few hours?
     
    Fat Dragon, Oct 12, 2010
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  2. the[r]

    the[r] Notebook Consultant

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    same thing happened to me alot of security releases within a few hours today
     
    the[r], Oct 12, 2010
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  3. swarmer

    swarmer beep beep

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    swarmer, Oct 12, 2010
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  4. Deks

    Deks Notebook Prophet

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    Lol ...
    I had 19 of them show up on my Windows Update yesterday, with an additional upgrade to MSE (not the definitions, but the actual program itself).
    :)
     
    Deks, Oct 13, 2010
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  5. metril

    metril Notebook Deity

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    I had 17 updates yesterday. Most probably for me, I have Office, MSE, and Visual Studio installed. So that already accounts for 12 of the 17 updates. The other 5 were compatibility fixes for some hardware devices.
     
    metril, Oct 13, 2010
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  6. kobe

    kobe Notebook Virtuoso

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    14 updates today.
     
    kobe, Oct 13, 2010
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  7. thundernet

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    It has happened before(plenty of times) so I don't worry about it.I had 11 important updates and 3 optional.
     
    thundernet, Oct 15, 2010
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  8. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    Yep. It is better to have frequent and as needed security updates than to leave them on schedules. It is tough to fight against cyber attacks :D

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Oct 16, 2010
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  9. shakennstirred

    shakennstirred Notebook Evangelist

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    my laptop didnt get 14 updates
    mine was about 3-4
     
    shakennstirred, Oct 16, 2010
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