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Microsoft Pulls Broken XP Update
Cally writes "Yahoo! reports that
Microsoft have pulled a Windows XP update from the Windows Update servers after it killed network access for some users of the claimed 600,000 who installed it. (Does this mean only 600,000 XP users trust Windows Update?) The story hints that the problem was something to do with VPN or IPSec drivers clashing with Symantec software - however I haven't found anything about this on the Microsoft KnowledgeBase (the link Yahoo provide goes to the generic support home page.) Anyone got more info?"
windows mustive been getting too stable. .
Do they have any sort of quality control?=)
How Now Brown Cow
I am currently porting apt-get to Windows. This will mean that these types of embarassing security breaches never happen again. apt-get is the answer to all of today's problems.
A new worm has begun infecting XP systems that didn't install the latest patch. "It's their own fault, they should have kept up to date" said BG.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Yahoo! reports that Microsoft have pulled a Windows XP update from the Windows Update servers after it killed network access for some users of the claimed 600,000 who installed it.
Furthermore, they realized how often all their OSes go down and decided to just give up.
If only was there a god to help us...
(Does this mean only 600,000 XP users trust Windows Update?)
Or does it mean that after a hundred thousand complaints they pulled it from the site?
*SLAP*
What the hell are you doing !! Get a hold of yourself man and stop trying to point out the facts in this story. Most posters so far have already managed to increase MS's few reported cases to 600,000 broken updates. Let them have their fun.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
It's moments like this that prove that the phrase "Microsoft KnowledgeBase" may in fact be the ultimate oxymoron.
Well nobody but the poor Win XP admins who installed the patch :)
May the source be with you!
Thankfully, I uh.. well, lets just say that windows update would cause information about my machine *caugh*cd key*caugh* profile to be 'exposed'. So, like any self respecting geek, I killed update at the machine level. Now your thinking...insecure? No bug fixes? C'mon, its windows for gods sake! RAID couldnt kill THAT bug.
Speaking at Defcon 12 - Credit Card Networks Revisted: Pen
It's not a bug, it's digital rights management preventing illegal file sharing!
Don't you see this is Microsoft making good on their promise for better security. Your computer cannot connect to the network then it is much more secure.
As x approaches total apathy I couldn't care less.
How about you find out what ^W means?
What good is a Knowledge Base article, Mr Anderson? If you're unable to surf?
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
Well, let's see. My hand has five fingers, I had to fix two computers yesterday because of this patch... that leaves 3 fingers of the handful to fix... They should call any minute now.
That's just my luck... Of the handful of people affected I had to know two of them...
Unless Microsoft is lying...
Noooooooo. They wouldn't...
The update finally make windows computers secure from remote attacks. What's wrong with that?
MS is trying to teach users about the real hardcore security.
Next critical security update will shutdown you machine for good.
Hey, everyone knows that only machines turned off are secure from crackers and viruses.
See, there's this new technology called "the telephone".... :)
Sig ?
Telephone? No, thats obsolete.
There's this new technology called "Palladium", it will help you with problems like this ^_~ as soon as your computer gets disconnected a little red light goes on at Redmond and a certified la...technician comes to your house and asks why you disconnected your computer.
It's the future!
Man, where's my +1, Tragic modifier when I need it?
It's a good thing it was roll-backable (yes I just made that up), can you imagine the tech support call?
You: This patch broke my computer, I can't connect to the internet anymore.
TS: We have the fix available, you just need to download it and install it.
You: This patch broke my computer, I can't connect to the internet anymore.
ad nauseum...
You're right -- the expectation that a product should work as intended is entirely unfounded. Thank you for freeing me from the ignorant cave in which I have been hiding all these years.
"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it." -- Ayn Rand
Only 2nd or 3rd? Don't visit /. much, do ya?
"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it." -- Ayn Rand
See there - that's what happens when you use a non-M$ security solution. If your computer just ran the built-in XP firewall this would never have happened, but you messed around and bought a competitor's product.
Serves you right.
Love and kisses,
Bill and Steve
"Security improvement"? I guess it improves security dramatically if it kills the network access. Thanks, Microsoft!
Hmmm... while tempted to launch into the whole PC vs Apple debate, currently I don't have the time...
I've got to get down to the pro-choice rally before I go lobby for my right-to-bear arms. After lunch I am attending the pro-captital punishment rally. Then hopefully tonight we can attend the fund raiser for the statue of Al "i invented the internet" Gore.
Here are the flame war rules. Please print them out for later reference.
Davak (in asbestos underwear)
"Fortnight" is a perfectly common term.
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce
I hear their next patch improves on this already impressive security, it shorts your power supply causing the PC to turn off, you can't get much more secure than that!
Sure you can! Don't you know that 90% of all security vulnerabilities lie between the chair and the keyboard? The Third Generation Security Patch eliminates this vulnerability by shorting the powersupply to the keyboard before it destroys the computer.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
"Fortnight" is a perfectly common term
Actually, I don't know where you're from, but no one uses that term in North America and I'm quite sure that very few know how long that is.
Don't be so arrogant.
and
"Don't be so arrogant."
Let me introduce you to the concept of irony.
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce
> "Security improvement"? I guess it improves security dramatically if it kills the network access. Thanks, Microsoft!
:)
How much do you want to bet that it still allows inbound SMB and Windows Messenger?
--Quentin