What Does This Mean?
What this means is a bad guy could use Outlook 2007 or 2010 to gain control of your system remotely. What makes this particularly alarming is that it wouldn’t require any action from the user, other than having an infected email message display in the preview Window in Outlook. It looks like this only affects users of Outlook 2007 or 2010. This security update is rated Critical for all supported editions of Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Outlook 2010. Just a reminder to make sure you have Windows set to automatically download and install updates. This way you can be sure you’re protected against new vulnerabilities in Windows and Microsoft Office. Also, once in a while it’s a good idea to run Windows Update manually in case Microsoft releases one off patches – which it sometimes does for zero day exploits.
After installing today’s updates, you can verify you’re Outlook is patched by going to Control Panel > Windows Update and look for (KB2756473). If it’s there you’re good to go. Microsoft issued 13 bulletins and four of them are critical and each involves Remote Code Execution on Outlook, Internet Explorer and SharePoint. Other programs patched today are Internet Explorer, Office, and Active Directory – just to name a few.
Fix the Rogue Outlook 2013 Widows Update – Empty Folder Pane
Of course there are updates for users of Office 2013 today too. One of them, which isn’t critical, breaks the folder pane in Outlook 2013 and leaves the folder pane empty. The culprit is (KB2817630). It’s not a critical update, it’s supposed to contain bug fixes, stability and performance improvements. Well, several users on TechNet forums have reported the same problem, myself included. Here is what happened to my folders pane – completely empty:
To fix the issue, go in to updates and remove the offender to fix.
Annoyingly you’re prompted to restart to complete the uninstall.
On my Windows 8 Pro 64-bit system running Outlook 2013 32-bit I closed out of Outlook, uninstalled the update, closed out of the reboot message, and relaunched Outlook and the Folders were back and everything seemed to work correctly. I did end up restarting later for good measure though.
I’m IT Specialist. and we have this problem in more than 50 computer.. how we can fix this problem from the server ? should i uninstall this update one by one ? ore there is other way ? Comment Name * Email *
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