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MS-DEFCON 1:
Current Microsoft patches are causing havoc. Don't patch.
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MS-DEFCON 4: Get patched, but know that there are problems
Posted on October 6th, 2011 at 13:48 8 commentsOK. I give up.
Microsoft’s .NET patching continues to cause problems. August’s Black Tuesday crop included three .NET patches, and they (like all .NET patches before them, in recent history) have led to all sorts of unexplained behavior.
But they’re out. They’ve been out for almost two months, and it doesn’t look like Microsoft is going to fix them. So – considering that the percentage chances of you getting stung by one of the patches is admittedly small – I’m going to go begrudgingly advise you to install all of the outstanding Microsoft patches.
September’s Black Tuesday patches turned out to be relatively benign. There have been some much-publicized SSL certificate revocations, as well, which arrived after the Black Tuesday bunch.
October’s Black Tuesday is in the wings, and you’d better get patched now.
If you’re willing to hunt and peck and choose and install or shun individual patches, Susan Bradley’s latest list in Windows Secrets Newsletter tells you which individual patches are stinkers. If you subscribe to WSN (either free or paid version), you received her list in the September 29 issue.
On the other hand, if you don’t really want to futz with individual patches — Susan lists 12 recent patches as either “Skip” or “Wait” — now would be a good time to get caught up. Yes, I recommend that you apply Service Pack 1 to Office 2010, and that you install the Office File Validation update.
So I’m moving us to MS-DEFCON 4: There are isolated problems with current patches, but they are well-known and documented here. Check this site to see if you’re affected and if things look OK, go ahead and patch.
Go ahead and get caught up with all of the Microsoft patches.
8 responses to “MS-DEFCON 4: Get patched, but know that there are problems”
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Barnnie October 8th, 2011 at 03:13
Just received 4 new “important” updates today, Friday 10-7-11.??? These part of the upcoming Black Tuesday updates?
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Barbara Gates October 9th, 2011 at 18:39
When I read this, I went ahead and installed all the pending .net updates on my desktop (win7, 64bit,i5 system) one at a time, with no problems. Have not gotten to the two laptops yet, so hope that they will be as smooth.
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@Barnnie -
No, they’re too soon for Black Tuesday. Not sure what they are….
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maghullyback October 10th, 2011 at 19:17
Hi Woody.
Since installing the updates yesterday on my vista laptop, it freezes solid if not used for 10 minutes. Mouse pointer frozen. No response from ctrl/alt/del. I have to manually turn it off and when I reboot, it starts windows normally and everything is okay until I leave it unused for a while, and then it freezes up again. It’s never done this before.
B4$t4rd thing. What do you think I should do? Cheers. -
Barnnie October 10th, 2011 at 22:00
The 4 updates I received on Friday are:
KB2478663, KB2518870, KB2468871, KB2522523 total of 103.5 MB. Any advice? thanks, Barnnie -
@Barnnie -
Looks like .NET and some other stuff. Go ahead and apply them.
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@Maghullyback -
Try removing the patches you installed, using Windows Add or Remove Programs.
Most likely culprits are the .NET patches.
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Barnnie October 11th, 2011 at 21:50
Thanks Woody, installed updates and restarted OK. Seems to be OK, Barnnie
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