September 2025 Patch Tuesday update breaks SMBv1 file sharing; Microsoft confirms the issue and offers a workaround.

Microsoft has confirmed that the 2025 Windows security updates are causing connection issues to Server Message Block (SMB) v1 shares.

"We do not consider this to be a significant threat to the security of the Internet," a Microsoft spokesperson said Thursday when queried about the advisory. The new vulnerability in Windows' TCP/IP ...

Microsoft has released patches for dozens of flaws in Windows and other products, including ones with a ‘likely exploitation’ rating.

This one's important, so let's get right to it: a new security flaw in all versions of Windows opens the door for a wormable remote code execution vulnerability. That means it can be exploited by an ...

Microsoft on Tuesday disclosed 64 vulnerabilities, including five critical ones and one that has been exploited. The patches released address common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) in: Microsoft ...

We all want, and need, the fastest possible Internet. To give that to its customers, Microsoft is upgrading its TCP/IP networking stack in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. These improvements are ...

This is a problem that's found by the PCI compliance scans. The only "solution" I've been able to find is to disable the scan, as "Microsoft won't allow you to disable the timestamps on Windows 7".

I'm having a problem with a clients windows 98 networking.<BR><BR>The TCP/IP stack looks okay all drivers look fine. I can ping anyhwere by number. I can tracert ...

The good news this is done by default. To verify this, I installed XP from scratch on a new system and it was there once all the updates/reboots had been completed. When creating a new TCP/IP based ...