• Yet another patch to the MS07-017 patch

    Microsoft has just posted a fix for folks who get the Blue Screen of Death after installing MS07-017 / KB 925902, the out-of-band ANI animated cursor security patch from earlier this month. If you see a 0x0000007f Stop Blue Screen after installing MS07-017, this new patch is supposed to fix the old patch.

    Details should be in KB article 935843, but that article isn’t online at the moment.

    Microsoft has also expanded the list of programs that don’t work correctly after installing MS07-017. “Microsoft has confirmed that this problem affects AVG Anti-Virus Control Center (made by Grisoft, Inc), version 7.5; BMC PATROL (made by BMC Software, Inc), version 7.1; and BricoPack Vista Inspirat (made by CrystalXP), version 1.1… [and] Suunto Ski Manager (made by Suunto), versions 1.0.2 , 1.1, and 1.2.”

    If that looks more than a little bit like the list I posted back on on April 6, you should be asking yourself why it took Microsoft 12 days to get this important information out to the public.

    Argh.