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MS fixes 'external database' bug with patches that have even more bugs

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 05:58:00 -0700

Yesterday, Thursday, a date which will live in infamy, Microsoft unleashed patches for five versions of Windows. They were supposed to fix the widely reported bug in all of the mainstream October Windows security patches that gave rise to a bogus “Unexpected error from external database driver” message.

It’s too early to assess all of the damage, but reports from many corners say installing these new patches brings back old, unpatched versions of many files. If you installed one of the patches from yesterday, best to uninstall it. Now.

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Word to the wise

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 03:00:00 -0700

IT pilot fish gets an email from a person who’s a member of a club they both belong to — and while it’s not work-related, it was clearly sent from work.

“The email had been written as a Word document and, since I wasn’t using a Windows-based computer, I opened it as a text document,” says fish.

“This allowed me to see not only the note intended for me, but also the document history for all the other recent documents opened in Word by that user that day.

“The person who sent me the email was an attorney. Talk about unintentionally breaching client confidentiality!

“I contacted her privately and discreetly, and handed her a printout showing some of the things contained in that document history.

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