Comments on: Still at MS-DEFCON 2: MS10-002 is out, but you don’t need it

By: woody

woody — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:42:43 +0000

Don -

I don’t know why. Have you approached MS for support? See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978207

But I know the best solution: switch to Firefox, or any of a half-dozen alternatives to IE.

By: Don

Don — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:40:44 +0000

In addition, it seems we can go into tools/internet options/advanced and click on the reset… button and things will start working again, but seem to come back in a couple of days…

By: Don

Don — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:39:20 +0000

I am having these issues “Do we have any known issuing as in “Problem opening certain websites” or certain application stops working after installing the patch.” Any clue as to why? I have an enterprise wide installation with about 2400 users and this is widespread, and seems to be after MS10-002 was deployed. Were there prerequisite patches that needed to be in place before applying MS10-002? Thanks — Don

By: rc primak

rc primak — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:54:07 +0000

Sorry to post so long after the original Comments here, but it needs to be noted that Apple Trailers are located only at The Apple iTunes Store, and Apple only allows access there through Genuine Apple QuickTime. VLC Player cannot get into the iTunes Store.

And as for Ghostery causing Firefox 3.5 or 3.6 to crash,I use Ghostery, NoScript, and quite a few other Firefox Extensions. No crashes or hangups on Windows XP Pro. None, never. Now Personas is a far different story…

By: sanda

sanda — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:15:40 +0000

Woody, What is VLC? I’d hate to install the wrong VLC.

By: woody

woody — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:42:22 +0000

Sanda -

Not likely, particularly because you’re using Firefox. Just re-install QuickTime – or get something better like VLC.

By: sanda

sanda — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:56:00 +0000

Could the patch “disappear” software? I went to view Apple trailers (using Firefox, of course) and got a ? Couldn’t find the Quicktime 7 and Itunes that I’d updated at start of month.

By: woody

woody — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:32:22 +0000

Akko -

It’s tough isolating problems like yours. I’m just glad you were able to recover.

You’ve got a good memory, too. My first book was “Windows 3.1 Programming for Mere Mortals.”

By: Akko

Akko — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:03:06 +0000

Email from MS yesterday, said: just go to the Knowledgebase. Spent 2 hours looking for similar problem. Nix. Decided to look at the Acer site. Found that I needed to use a different key combination to access the Acer facility to recover the factory settings from a partition on the HD. Decided not to waste any more time, so installed the original set up, and spent quite a bit of time installing all the programmes, luckily Mozilla, OpenOffice, AVG etc, and all my data which I luckily had backed up. I doubt if MS would ever really help anyone, especially if they thought it was not their fault. But it is too much of a coincidence that the update installed itself, shut down the laptop, and the a Black screen.
Thanks for your comments Woody, I have most of your books ever since I started with WIN 3.1 all those years ago, or was it 95 you first wrote about?

By: Akko

Akko — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:25:42 +0000

Not yet. It was Sunday yesterday, perhaps they all go to church? I will let you know if they do.