Microsoft to Patch Problem Patch

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday April 21, 2006 @05:37PM from the just-don't-screw-up-the-repatch dept.

slowroller writes to mention an eWeek article about a new patch to fix issues raised in their most recent release. From the article: "The company's plan is to target the rerelease only to Windows users who are affected. In a blog entry, Toulouse said the company's patch deployment technologies will have "detection logic" built into them to only offer the revised update to customers who don't have MS06-015 or are having the problem. The glitches, which Microsoft claims affect only a tiny fraction of the 120 million installations of the patch, stem from a new binary called VERCLSID.EXE that validates shell extensions before they are instantiated by the Windows Shell or Windows Explorer. On systems running Hewlett-Packard's Share-to-Web software, Sunbelt's Kerio Personal Firewall and some NVIDIA Drivers, users complained that the new binary stopped responding."

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Is this even news? by reldruH · 2006-04-21 17:59 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Seriously? There are flaws in Microsoft code? Maybe it's news that a patch is actually going to be released but with all the problems in Windows, is this even news?

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