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MS-DEFCON 2:
Patch reliability is unclear. Unless you have an immediate, pressing need to install a specific patch, don't do it.
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MS-DEFCON 2: Lots of little updates trickling in
Posted on January 27th, 2010 at 11:01 2 commentsFor a couple of years, now, Microsoft has been dribbling out little updates for Vista on the fourth Tuesday of every month. Starting this month, the little dribble now includes Windows 7 as well.
If you see a notification for new updates that you haven’t seen before, it’s just the little guys knocking at your door. Ars Technica has details.
There’s nothing in the dribble that’s of any interest to most of you. Well, OK, if you fit the following description:
your Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 computer has an NVIDIA USB Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) chipset, at least 4GB of RAM, and while performing general I/O operations on an external USB device, such as copying data from the computer, either your computer stops responding or the copy operation stops abruptly.
For everybody else, it’s a yawner. We’re still at MS-DEFCON 2: Patch reliability is unclear. Unless you have an immediate, pressing need to install a specific patch, don’t do it.
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2 responses to “MS-DEFCON 2: Lots of little updates trickling in”
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Martin Sapsed January 27th, 2010 at 16:29
I’m glad someone else has noticed these – I was beginning to think it was just us. Not noticed many other comments on the 2nd Black Tuesday. I know they’re nothing partcularly exciting, but they still need testing etc in a large environment… Why don’t MS come clean about this?
Martin
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rc primak January 28th, 2010 at 00:12
From what I have gleaned, most of the MS Fourth Thursday patches are aimed at business/enterprise users, and concern the types of updates that home users would not have any interest in. Susan Bradley’s recent Windows Secrets Newsletter article (on rebooting after automatic updates patches Windows) does not directly confirm this, but the 4th Thurs. patch she uses as an illustration also fits this pattern.
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