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Is Kaspersky Software A National Security Risk?
Apparently some in our intelligence community think so.
“In February, the Department of Homeland Security issued a secret report on the matter to other government agencies. And the FBI is investigating the nature of Kaspersky Lab’s relationship to the Russian government“.
For it’s part Kaspersky “has repeatedly insisted it poses no threat to U.S. customers and would never be used as a government tool.”
I know almost nothing about Russian politics. I have never been to Russia. The closest I ever got to Russia was East Berlin a couple of years before the wall came down.
Having said all that, I can’t imagine anyone in Russia telling President Vladimir Putin or his boys “Nyet“.

Google Chrome Updated
“The stable channel has been updated to 58.0.3029.110 for Windows, Mac, and Linux…In order to improve stability, performance, and security, users who are currently on 32-bit version of Chrome, and 64-bit Windows with 4GB or more of memory and auto-update enabled will be automatically migrated to 64-bit Chrome during this update.”
Download: Google Chrome Web 32-bit    Google Chrome 64-bit

O&O ShutUp10 Version 1.5.1390
Version 1.5.1390 – released on May 09, 2017
– Changing languages now available in the Help Menu
– Adjustments to the UI
– Small bug fixes
– Available in German, English, French, Italian and Russian.
Download

Intel SSD Toolbox 3.4.5
See download page for release info.

Firefox 53.0.2
A few days late with this.
Windows 64-bit (en-US)
Windows 32-bit (en-US)
Other systems and languages

Adobe Flash Updated
APSB17-15 Security updates available for Adobe Flash Player
Download Flash

Wise Disk Cleaner 9.47
– Improved Microsoft Edge Cache and Cookies cleaning.
– Improved Microsoft IE Cache and Cookies cleaning.
– Other minor improvements.
Download

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I’m taking off for a few days. I’ll leave you with this stuff…

Win10 Creators Update Official
This will hit Windows Update starting today. Because Win10 Windows Update is a Charlie Foxtrot, you may not be offered this for a while.
Watch the Windows Blog for the official announcment.
Watch Neowin for more download links.
Watch Ask Woody for watches, warnings, and upgrade advice.
Update and/or get official ISO here so you can update on your timetable: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO
I wouldn’t be in a hurry to update. Backup before proceeding!

Time To Run Windows Update
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance
Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 update history

Hasta La Vista, Baby!
Windows Vista is dead. Good riddance!

Storage Deals
Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day: Save up to 35% on select SanDisk memory products
Some great deals on Flash Drives, SSDs, and Memory Cards.

Adobe Acrobat And Flash Updated
Security updates.
Download Flash
Download Reader

Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire
“Last October, Microsoft announced that the third major feature update for Windows 10 would be marketed as the Creators Update. And it created, ahem, a video showing off new features that would arrive in that update.
That video is a lie.”
Fact Check: Microsoft’s Creators Update Introduction Video

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Time To Run Windows Update
Security updates available for all supported versions of Windows, IE, Edge, Flash…
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2017
see also: Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 update history
I would highly recommend watching Ask Woody to monitor the situation with these updates. Especially watch his MS-DEFCON board.

Flash
What would Patch Tuesday be without Adobe patching Flash?
APSB17-07 Security updates available for Adobe Flash Player
Download (for Firefox, Opera, Chromium, IE 10 and earlier)

Google Chrome
Chrome 57 was released 5 days ago. It contains the latest Flash version

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For those hardy souls that install updates as they are released, it is time to run that crap-shoot known as Windows Update.
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for January 2017
If you really want to stay in the know, head over to AskWoody and Woody at InfoWorld.

Adobe Stuff Updated
APSB17-01 Security Updates Available for Adobe Acrobat and Reader
Download
APSB17-02 Security Updates Available for Adobe Flash Player
Download

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Time To Run Windows Update?
All supported Windows versions have received updates.
Microsoft’s permanent beta OS, otherwise known as Windows 10, has been updated to version 14393.576.
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for December 2016
Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 update history

Firefox 50.1.0
“security fixes”
Download 32-bit(en-US)
Download 64-bit (en-US)
All Downloads
Release Notes

Google Chrome
Updated to 55.0.2883.87 last Friday.
Download

Adobe Flash 24.0.0.186
APSB16-39 Security updates available for Adobe Flash Player
Flash for IE
Flash for other browsers
Main download page

CCleaner 5.25
Download
– Added support for Firefox Web Extensions
– Improved Firefox History and Cache cleaning
– Improved Chrome and Opera Session cleaning
– Improved Edge Extensions management
– Improved DPI awareness and support
– Minor GUI improvements
– Minor bug fixes

O&O ShutUp10
Download
Version 1.4.1386
New Settings
– Disable Microsoft from conducting experiments on the system
– Disable Tips, Tricks und Suggestions while using Windows
– Disable occasional app suggestions in the Start menu
When closing, message about Restart after Windows updates
Bug fixes
– Restoration point will only be created when changes need to be executed
– Closing via the file menu now also displays a dialog about restarting the system
Available in German, English, French, Italian, and Russian
– Language will be automatically selected based on settings in Windows

Other Software
EMDB (Eric’s Movie Database) 2.62
Paint.net 4.0.13

Firefox 0 Day

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This security vulnerability is being actively exploited. Stop using Firefox under Windows until patched.
“Currently it exploits Windows systems with a high success rate and affects Firefox versions 41 to 50 and the current version of the Tor Browser Bundle”
More info:
Emergency Bulletin: Firefox 0 day in the wild. What to do. – Wordfence blog
Firefox 0day in the wild is being used to attack Tor users – Arstechnica