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  • Hold off on KB 958690, 960225, 959772

    Posted on April 1st, 2009 at 21:27 woody 2 comments

    The other patch Tuesday has come and gone, and there’s a bunch of patches waiting for your approval.

    As usual, I advise you to hold off on all of the patches, except the Junk E-Mail Filter, any Windows Defender updates and the Malicious Software Removal Tool, KB 890830.

    Yes, that means you should apply Junk E-Mail Filter updates, Windows Defender updates, and you should run the latest Malicious Software Removal Tool (which may or may not remove the latest version of Conficker).

    Speaking of which… It’s April 1, Conficker has turned over a new leaf, and the earth is still spinning. Amazing.

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    2 responses to “Hold off on KB 958690, 960225, 959772”

    1. EP April 2nd, 2009 at 04:04

      I will say that KB959772 for WinXP is okay to install as it only updates the WMP.DLL file for Windows Media Player 11. On the other hand, KB959772 for Vista updates a bunch of WMP11 files and may cause some problems as noted on this MS Technet forum page:
      http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistaannouncements/thread/67563732-02fc-44e7-bc7a-e08735bf8c8d/

      Summary: KB959772 for XP – safe to install, KB959772 for Vista – could cause some problems; hold off on this one

    2. sanda April 2nd, 2009 at 05:17

      What about KB960715 which was on hold awhile back. It is still being “offered” to me. Do we “do it” or let it still stay on hold? (I may have missed a post about it.)

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