MICROSOFT PATCHES

PATCH WEEK

If you found your computer had rebooted itself overnight it is more than likely Microsoft downloaded and installed some critical patches, including the "Zero Day" exploit hole in all versions of Internet Explorer. In total, I believe there were 10 security patches applied to Internet Explorer over night, along with other security plugs for other Windows features and/or products.

This may not have gone smoothly for your PC though - It took me several shutdown/restarts and a wasted hour or so this morning just so I could open Outlook, Internet Explorer, and even Firefox. All appears rather normal now with one glaring exception: My Norton anti-virus password vault will no longer open. I've clicked on that tab numerous times (in both browsers) to find it not working (typically when you click on the Vault tab it drops down and lets you type in a master password, which it isn't doing now), thank you Microsoft (not). It's possible a 4th shutdown/restart may fix that but I don't have the time to deal with it this morning. 

I hope your patch experience was more pleasant than mine -

'Nuff Said,
Brian