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• Lessons learned from August’s botched KB 2859537 patch

  Posted on October 3, 2013 at 21:06 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Watch out for Registry cleaners!

  InfoWorld Tech Watch

  Windows Patches/Security KB 2859537

• Microsoft needs your help to fix botched patch KB 2859537

  Posted on August 21, 2013 at 19:34 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  … and people say all of my reporting about Microsoft patches is negative. 🙂

  Seriously, if you’re having problems with KB 2859537 — or you know somebody who has — check out this InfoWorld Tech Watch story.

  Windows Patches/Security KB 2859537

• Microsoft botches six (yes, six) Black Tuesday patches: KB 2876063, KB 2859537, KB 2873872, KB 2843638, KB 2843639, and KB 2868846

  Posted on August 15, 2013 at 19:05 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  No, I don’t make this stuff up.

  Last month, we had four botched patches sent down the Automatic Update chute.

  This month, it’s six.

  Admittedly, most of them are for servers — but there’s puh-lenty to worry about if you’re a regular Windows user, and you left Automatic Update on.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Windows Patches/Security August 2013 Black Tuesday, KB 2843638, KB 2843639, KB 2859537, KB 2868846, KB 2873872, KB 2876063, Wotta mess