Filed under: Software, Odds and ends
Microsoft releases, then pulls, Office 2004 11.3.1 and Office v.X 10.1.9 updates
For a brief period of time yesterday, there were updates for Office v.X as well as Office 2004 available on Microsoft's website as well as via Microsoft AutoUpdate. Both releases contained "several updates to enhance security and stability, including fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code."For a while, the patches were still showing up when you ran AutoUpdate, but the Download links on this page and this page produced 404 Not Found errors. The links still go 404, and now the updates aren't showing on AutoUpdate either. Both updates are still listed here, but you'll still end up in the land of 404 if you follow the breadcrumbs.
Has Microsoft pulled the updates intentionally because they found a bug in the updates or updaters themselves (release early, test late?) or has the file server simply "misplaced" them? Should the folks who already updated yesterday from AutoUpdate be worried? Should the folks still waiting for the update be worried? Somehow I doubt that whole icon thing is responsible for knocking the Mac BU this much off their game. So what's up, Mac BU?
If and when Microsoft resumes its update schedule, we'll let you know. Meanwhile, try not to associate with any known malicious hackers.
UPDATED 11:00am ET: Please see "Microsoft Security Response Center says yesterday's Office Updates were a mistake"
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
matt said 9:17AM on 12-13-2006
The links worked for me just now (9:15 AM)
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Laurie said 9:22AM on 12-13-2006
The actual download links, Matt? You were able to download a dmg? Both links are still 404 here.
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Will said 9:45AM on 12-13-2006
Works for me...
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Austin Claffey said 9:59AM on 12-13-2006
404 here
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Steve S said 10:06AM on 12-13-2006
We’ve seen some questions from customers about some security updates that posted for a while today for Office for Mac that they didn’t see any security bulletins for.
I wanted to let you know that these weren’t security updates related to this month’s release or the two Word issues we’ve written about in Security Advisory 929433 and on our weblog: those investigations are still underway and we’ll release updates for those issues once we’ve met the appropriate quality bar. The updates posted in error were pre-release binaries that had been staged internally as part of our testing for an upcoming release. Due to human error, they were accidentally published to the public websites before our full testing release process was complete.
As soon as we discovered the error, we moved quickly to address it and remove the pre-release binaries from our public sites.
Once our investigation into this issue is complete and we have security updates that meet our quality bar for release, we’ll release those final security updates for all products affected along with a security bulletin. We’re also taking steps to ensure a mistake like this doesn’t happen again.
We recommend that anyone who may have installed these pre-release updates to uninstall them.
I’m sorry for any confusion this might have caused.
Thanks.
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Jon said 10:15AM on 12-13-2006
How do I go about uninstalling them?
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Tilted said 10:18AM on 12-13-2006
How do you "uninstall" pre-release updates, Steve S?!
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JB said 10:20AM on 12-13-2006
Doesn't work for me... should I be worried?
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altern8tif said 1:53PM on 12-13-2006
After installing, my MacBook Pro freezes on shutdown/restart... Not too sure if it is the result of the installation. Anyone else experiencing problems with the update from Microsoft??
How do we uninstall the update anyway??
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