Re: After Ms patches last Wed ...

[Scott Gifford <sgifford () suspectclass com>]

phaser-X <px () zeroday net> writes:

> I had a different issue after Wednesdays updates.  Two win2k computers in 
> my office were rendered useless after the patch.  They were fine before, 
> but as soon as the patch finished and the PC was rebooted, the CPU usage 
> was 100% and nothing could be done.  I left both PC's sitting for about 20 
> minutes and the 100% CPU usage never came down.  Another coworker said he 
> had the same issue with his home PC and he was eventually able to get into 
> the task manager and noticed that the system process was taking up 99-100% 
> of the CPU.
>
> Anyone else experience this issue?

A consulting client of mine had the same complaint.  He was only able
to fix it by re-installing Windows.  You may want to mention it on
NTBugTraq, they often discuss and sort out things like this.

----ScottG.