Security Bulletin: January 2009 Release

security bulletin

I’m a bit late on this one but better late than never.  Please see details below for this month’s security bulletin release.

Bulletin Identifier Maximum Severity Affected Products Impact
MS09-001

Critical

Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008 Remote Code Execution

Summaries for this new bulletin can be found here.

Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool

We are also releasing an updated version of the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool.  More details of the tool can be found here.

Note: Regarding Conficker Removal

The update to the Malicious Software removal tool will include detection for Win32/Conficker.  Since Win32/Conficker disables automatic updates another enterprise deployment method will be needed to push out the MSRT.  KB891716 has more details.

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