Tomorrow is “Microsoft Patch Tuesday”. Most of the fixes will deal with Windows.
Twenty two software vulnerabilities will be addressed, one for Visio and one “Critical” security update. Without the update, your pc will be vulnerable to attack.
Security expert Andrew Storms believes this will mean Microsoft's release of a 'superpatch' to address a lot of issues all at once.
"I think we'll see one bulletin with a very high number of vulnerabilities," said Storms, nCircle Security's director of security operations. "We've seen that happen several times this year, most recently last month when it patched eight bugs in Excel with one update." - pcworld.com
According to infopackets, the patch process will be time consuming, requiring restarts:
“Although the size of this Patch Tuesday is by no means the year's largest, Lumension security and forensic analyst Paul Henry says it could prove time-consuming.
"The reality is that it will be rather disruptive, as all the patches impact Windows and Office and require a restart," Henry said. (Source: fiercecio.com)” - infopackets
“Microsoft announced July 5th that the company will retire Office XP and Windows Vista Service Pack 1, starting July 12th this year. After tomorrow's patch release, Microsoft is said to put and end to issuing security updates for the productivity suite from 2001 and Vista Service Pack 1.” - eweek.com
Microsoft's batch of patches will be released tomorrow (Tuesday) at 1pm, Eastern Standard Time (EST), according to infopackets.