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Microsoft .NET Patch May Make PCs Go "Haywire"
yuna49 writes "Various people are reporting that the MS07-040 patch for .NET released on Tuesday can cause a variety of seemingly unrelated problems. According to the SANS Internet Storm Center 'the reports we got so far seem not to lead to any specific thing that happens in many cases, just various things going haywire.' Some commentators on The Register's report of this story indicate that the patch failed to install at all, while others report things like the mouse suddenly failing to work or long periods of hard drive thrashing. In some cases a hard reboot seems to fix the problem, but other reports suggest that a reinstallation of the .NET framework itself is required. The problems may be related to the MSCORSVW.EXE process which recompiles all the .NET assemblies when the patch is downloaded. While the recompilations are supposed to run as a background task, in some instances the recompilation will drive the processor to 100% usage."
Dare I say this did not affect my Ubuntu boxes?
Okay, okay, I'm following you. I'm listening. And.... and......
and..?
What's the punchline? Where's the climax of the story? Where's the conclusion? I think your post was missing something..?
So, what about ProcessExplorer? You called up Process Explorer, and......? What about it?
Was the 100% usage blocking task manager and you had to use process explorer, or what?
REBOOT! (and rejoice, and talk to me about uptime later)
Yes, the Ubuntu Live CD.
you can set a WSUS sever
...and rapidly propagate these buggy, system-corrupting patches just like this one to hundreds of PCs on your network as fast and automated as possible too!
And unfortunately, not only here do people like you think that just because you follow some book put out by Microsoft, that you are competent at anything besides living in your mother's basement.
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