• MS-DEFCON 1: Office security patches are all screwed up and IE patches aren’t much better. Don’t patch.

    Posted on June 22, 2017 at 23:20 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Kirsty caught the initial whiff, based on a Günter Born post about problems with Outlook. PKCano raised the alarm about Office patches in general on June 19. Now, it seems Outlook is under attack by Microsoft’s own security patches — and IE still doesn’t print properly.

    The situation’s so bad, Microsoft itself has documented the problems with Outlook, after installing the June 2017 Office patches.

    There are seven separately identified, potentially show-stopping bugs in Outlook that appear after you install this month’s Office security patches: Can’t open attachments, VBScript doesn’t run, Outlook search doesn’t work, and the previously described IE failure to print mis-fires from inside Outlook.

    The workarounds? Forward the mail to yourself and then open the attachments in the forwarded email. Save the attachments to your computer and open them manually. Use something other than IE. Or, it would seem, anything but Outlook.

    Microsoft really screwed up this month’s patches — both for Office and for Windows. Unless you want to use your machine as a Windows/Office beta test environment, I strongly suggest you refrain from applying any of this month’s updates.

    Accordingly, I’m moving us to MS-DEFCON 1: Current Microsoft patches are causing havoc. Don’t patch.

    I’m seeing “secret” reports all over the web that Microsoft will be fixing some or all of its malicious patches next Tuesday, June 27. You would be well advised to wait until we see the fallout from the fixes to the fixes before installing anything.

    As MrBrian notes, Microsoft now has official acknowledgments posted for 16 known-bad June 2017 patches.

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