Dec 12 SECURITY UPDATE to version 11.3.1 to patch vulnerabilities

[Norman R. Nager, Ph.D.]

I saw the the update posted on versiontracker.com at:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14980

Rather than download at that site, I updated by going under Entourage's Help
pulldown menu to "Check for Updates."

As I noted in my comments on the versiontracker.com site:

11.3.0 installed without incident after I had quit out of all Office
programs.

Version numbers: Entourage updated from 11.2.5 to 11.3.1 but both Word and
Excel remained at 11.3.0.

No issues whatsoever in putting Entourage, Excel and Word through their
paces.

It would be nice if there never were any security vulnerabilities to patch
but I do appreciate the frequent and quick efforts of Microsoft and of Apple
to respond to discovery of holes.

Respectfully, Norm

 

[Jeff Zienowicz]

I saw the the update posted on versiontracker.com at:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14980

Rather than download at that site, I updated by going under Entourage's Help
pulldown menu to "Check for Updates."

Oddly, Autoupdate told me that no updates were available (I'm up-to-date
through 11.3.0). I went to Microsoft's site and found the .dmg for the
update but got a 404 error from the link to the download.

I wonder if (1) Microsoft pulled the update for some reason or (2) they
haven't finished rolling it out (resulting in Autoupdate not seeing it).

Has anyone else been able to update via Autoupdate?

Jeff

 

[aRKay]

Norm,

It looks like MS pulled the updater. Not sure if you can undue the
update?

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Title: Microsoft Office 2004 11.3.1: Plugs security holes [UPDATE:
Download no longer available]
Date: Tuesday, December 12 2006 @ 03:15 PM PST

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