MSI and EXE files may appear to do the same thing in many ways; you could say they are the same but have different names. However, that is not the case because while they are similar, differences do ...

Chinese language hackers are taking advantage of the Windows Installer (MSI) file format to bypass standard security checks. Hackers are known to deliver malware in the same sorts of familiar formats: ...

While I know semantically what the difference is between MS installer, update, and patch files, I was wondering if anyone knew what the functional difference is between these three types of install ...

No more DLL hell. That was just one of Microsoft Corp.’s goals when it introduced the Windows Installer service along with Windows 2000 nearly four years ago. The service, which now runs on Windows XP ...

An unofficial patch is available for a zero-day vulnerability that is actively exploited in the wild to gain administrator privileges. Proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code that works out of the box has ...

I've tried every property I can find on my setup project in VS.NET 2003 and I can't get the .msi file to overwrite an existing install of a previous version.<BR><BR>Whenver I create an .msi, if the ...