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If you can’t avoid Word's 'Enable Editing,' patch Windows right now

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 06:55:00 -0700

In the normal course of events, it takes a week (or two or three) for the bugs in each month’s Windows and Office security patches to shake out. This month’s patches are no exception. There are lots of reports of problems with IE and Edge, for example, and many more are piling up.

In the normal course of events, the fresh-off-the-press security patches present more of a threat to most people in the short term than do the problems the patches are supposed to fix. You have to patch sooner or later, but by waiting for the screams of pain to die down, you can save yourself some major headaches.

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Kids! Do NOT try this at work!

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 03:00:00 -0700

This IT consultant pilot fish works at a real estate company once a week, performing SAN management and doing routine updates and security patching on the Windows PCs.

“I was using my Linux-based laptop to peruse the quarantine area of the antivirus application, checking out the many X-rated and infected email attachments that had been caught and sent to the folder,” says fish.

“Several employees were standing around watching and commenting on the files. One of them decided to go back to his own PC to check out the pictures for himself.

“Shortly after opening several of the quarantined items, he suddenly called out, ‘Hey, why is my computer acting weird?’

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