{"id":321,"date":"2014-07-13T15:31:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T23:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2015-06-12T04:29:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T12:29:24","slug":"microsoft-security-update-kb2962872-breaks-installshield-installaware-18-offers-flexible-and-secure-upgrade-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Security Update KB2962872 Breaks InstallShield; InstallAware 18 Offers Flexible and Secure Upgrade Path."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Security Update KB2962872 is crashing multiple versions of InstallShield as described at <a href=\"http:\/\/windowsitpro.com\/security\/microsoft-kb2962872-breaks-installshield\">http:\/\/windowsitpro.com\/security\/micros &#8230; tallshield<\/a>, rendering a very expensive product inoperative. While InstallShield is currently researching the nature of the problem as described at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.installaware.com\/brokenshield.asp\">http:\/\/www.installaware.com\/brokenshield.asp<\/a>, Install<strong>Aware<\/strong> offers a very flexible upgrade path to all developers and administrators affected by the issue.<\/p>\n<p>InstallShield have made great strides in recent years catching up with the flexibility offered by Install<strong>Aware<\/strong>. InstallShield 2014 released this year natively implemented some very popular Install<strong>Aware<\/strong> features, some of which had been available in Install<strong>Aware<\/strong> for as long as a decade:<\/p>\n<p>1) High-DPI Installs (since 2004)<br \/>\n2) Multiple Instance Installs (since 2005)<br \/>\n3) Setup Always Installs Latest Available Version Online (since 2012)<\/p>\n<p>Companies such as Embarcadero migrated away from InstallShield as early as 2008, recognizing the more flexible nature of Install<strong>Aware<\/strong> early on, as described in the migration case study available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.installaware.com\/CodeGearCaseStudy2008.pdf\">http:\/\/www.installaware.com\/CodeGearCaseStudy2008.pdf<\/a>. In 2008, a vulnerability was discovered in the InstallShield Update Service Agent, as documented at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kb.cert.org\/vuls\/id\/837092\">https:\/\/www.kb.cert.org\/vuls\/id\/837092<\/a>. Arbitrary code could be executed, compromising any system with InstallShield-installed products on them.<\/p>\n<p>Install<strong>Aware<\/strong> in its decade of operation has never been affected negatively by Microsoft Security Updates, or compromised end-user systems where Install<strong>Aware<\/strong> setups have been run, under any circumstance. Install<strong>Aware<\/strong>&#8216;s emergence after the invention of Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Installer standard has made it a stable, well-designed product from the ground-up; whereas legacy installation vendors have had to scramble to retrofit their ageing technology dating to the early 90&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the unsurpassed flexibility and stability offered by Install<strong>Aware<\/strong> for Windows software developers and Windows system administrators, licensing is also effortless on the Install<strong>Aware<\/strong> platform. Install<strong>Aware<\/strong>&#8216;s licensing just-works &#8211; without needing to install dedicated product license servers, or without even requiring an Internet connection to activate or use products on an ongoing basis. This is a boon to computing environments which must remain disconnected from the Internet for security reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Security Update KB2962872 is crashing multiple versions of InstallShield as described at http:\/\/windowsitpro.com\/security\/micros &#8230; tallshield, rendering a very expensive product inoperative. While InstallShield is currently researching the nature of the problem as described at http:\/\/www.installaware.com\/brokenshield.asp, InstallAware offers a very flexible upgrade path to all developers and administrators affected by the issue. InstallShield have made &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=321\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft Security Update KB2962872 Breaks InstallShield; InstallAware 18 Offers Flexible and Secure Upgrade Path.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}