Microsoft's Patch Tuesday followed by headache Wednesday

Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday followed by headache Wednesday

by Jordan Running Apr 19th 2006

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday last week meant a sigh of relief for sysadmins dreading the nasty Internet Explorer vulnerability discovered last month, but any relief was short-lived as the round of patches has apparently led to a plague of bugs and incompatibilities. Last week's patches are causing "causing system hangs, Windows crashes and the appearance of strange dialog boxes" and interfering with apps from Google, HP, and even Microsoft's own Windows Media Player. One company is also saying that the new Internet Explorer plugin behavior resulting from Microsoft's patent dispute with Eolas is causing problems for enterprise customers, who are having to click several times to use ActiveX controls. As usual, none of these problems will be fixed until the second Tuesday of next month.

Tags: bugs, ie, microsoft, oops, patch, vulnerability, windows

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Dial er said 5:22PM on 4-19-2006

I'm tired of this patches... When there will be a normal releas of operating system?! (a question to the air)

Peter said 6:28PM on 4-19-2006

Dialer - Are you asking for an OS that is perfect out of the box and impervious to all known AND unknown attacks?
Never going to happen.
All OSs will eventually need updates, Windows, Mac, Linux, all of them.

rtms said 9:40PM on 4-19-2006

Ahh, glad to see what happened to me was not isolated. I lost my network connections etc when those patches came.

reuben said 7:01PM on 4-20-2006

i just updated my xp with new tues. patches, and whenever i now right-click on my desktop my computer freezes and i have to reboot....wtf peeps!

Peter said 7:08PM on 4-20-2006

I installed all these patches on about 25 desktops at work and 3 systems at home with no problems.

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