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Re:Vulnerability in Microsoft Font Driver Could Allow Remote... by j_s on Monday July 20, 2015 @11:32PM (#9920435)
Greetings! In the spirit of assuming the power cord and/or laptop battery is plugged in, you are running 64-bit Windows v8.1, correct?

And in the spirit of being helpful, you can run the following command to verify the above and see if Windows Update already auto-installed this KB (if so, it will be listed):

  systeminfo | findstr /ic:"os name" /c:"system type" /c:"3079904"
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Re:Vulnerability in Microsoft Font Driver Could Allow Remote... by wfunction on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @12:28AM (#9920562)
> In the spirit of assuming the power cord and/or laptop battery is plugged in

Yes

> you are running 64-bit Windows v8.1, correct?

Yes

> you can run the following command to verify the above and see if Windows Update already auto-installed this KB (if so, it will be listed)

I did, and it is not.

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