Microsoft Telling Users To Uninstall Bad Patch

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 12, 2013 @03:40AM from the but-thanks-for-testing-it dept.

msm1267 writes "Microsoft announced last night that it has stopped pushing a security update originally released on Patch Tuesday because the fix is causing some PCs to blue-screen. Microsoft recommends users uninstall the patch, which is also causing compatibility issues with some endpoint security software. MS13-036 was part of this week's Patch Tuesday update. It addressed three vulnerabilities in the Windows Kernel-Mode Driver, which if exploited could allow an attacker to elevate their privileges on a compromised machine. Users began reporting issues earlier this week with some systems failing to recover from restarts, or applications failing to load, after the patch was installed."

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Why I never auto-install updates by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-12 03:53 · Score: 5, Interesting

I set Windows Update to notify and download updates, but never to auto-install them. I also usually hold updates a few days before installing. Use the same policy with my Linux boxes and have never run into problems.