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Originally Posted by filburt1

You are making statements passed off as facts. I back up my machine, and System Restore has always worked with a hosed driver or other issue.

Personal experience and making factual statements are two different issues. When making such posts, it would be more courteous to specifically state that you are making an opinion, not posting facts without statistical backup.

Microsoft patch freezes some systems

http://news.com.com/2100-1002-993515.html?tag=fd_top

A patch for a security flaw that affects Microsoft's Web server software running on Windows 2000 has caused system freezes for some customers, the company said Thursday.

The company became aware of the problem after several customers who applied the patch, released Monday, complained that their updated Windows 2000 system wouldn't run, said Iain Mulholland, program manager for the Microsoft Security Response Center.

The problematic patch is not the first black eye that Microsoft has received in fixing a bug. Nearly two years ago, the software giant had to release a fix for its Exchange groupware server three times to get the update right.



IE Cumulative Update Is Messy

http://www.winnetmag.com/Articles/In...rticleID=38372


Microsoft released a security rollup for all versions of Internet Explorer (IE) on February 5; then, on February 12, the company released a hotfix that corrects an IE 6.0 authentication flaw the rollup introduces.



Microsoft SSL patch creating SSLowdowns

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/...ftpatch_1.html


Some systems that use the security update, MS04-011, stop responding when they start up, prevent users from logging on to Windows, or bog down, Microsoft said in an article published Wednesday in its Knowledge Base online help database.

Since releasing the patch, Microsoft has encouraged customers to apply the it as soon as possible. However, now it appears that the patch comes with its own problems.

Microsoft's Knowledge Base article said that a software change in the patch causes Windows 2000 systems to repeatedly try to load drivers that cannot load successfully, causing the hangups. (See: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;841382.)

The Redmond, Washington, company listed three software drivers that, if installed, make Windows 2000 systems susceptible to the slowdowns. The Knowledge Base article also described specific problems and a work-around procedure for Windows systems that have Nortel Networks' virtual private network client installed.

Faulty patches are a frequent source of concern for Microsoft, which encourages its customers to install security patches as soon as possible to protect Windows systems from attack. Network administrators, on the other hand, are often reluctant to move quickly with software updates, fearing that, once installed, they will break critical systems.


Microsoft fixing another faulty patch

http://www.tunexp.com/news/windows-story-114.html


Microsoft Corp. acknowledged yesterday that a recent security patch is causing problems on machines running the Windows NT 4.0 operating system.

Microsoft customers described a variety of problems immediately after downloading and installing the patch on vulnerable systems, including error messages and problems trying to log onto affected systems. RRAS allows remote users to securely connect to NT 4.0 systems over dial-up or broadband Internet connections.

The incident is the latest example of a security patch gone awry. In April, Microsoft was forced to acknowledge and fix a problem with a patch for Windows XP that caused slowdowns on systems that applied the patch.


Microsoft Exchange bug: Strike three?

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-268296.html?legacy=cnet


While Microsoft denied that it had received any reports of difficulties with its second patch for securing Exchange 2000 and 5.5, three system administrators have reported that the fix continues to hang their servers.

"This is the same exact problem as the first patch," said Chuck Myntti, a system administrator at the University of Utah, who had to rebuild the mail server to rid it of the pesky patch. "I'm really frustrated with Microsoft."

On Friday, the company pulled down the fix after several system administrators complained that newly patched exchange servers hung, leaving any inbound e-mail to pile up on external servers. The company also announced that the flaw not only affected Exchange 2000 but Exchange 5.5 as well.

Microsoft posted the latest patch Saturday, but some system administrators are claiming that the software is still not working.

"I worked with Microsoft (technical support) for three hours," said Trey Carr, manager of information systems for ZonaFinanciera.com, a trilingual financial news site. "Apparently, they are not done with this patch yet. They could not even get it to uninstall itself."

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