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Re: After Ms patches last Wed ...
From: geoff.froh () densho org
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 19:55:26 +0000
I was told a Win2K user at work experienced the same thing. Seems that Microsoft may not have spent enough time testing one of these patches on the Win2K platform. Dunno which one, since in recent years I'd found Microsoft's patches to be well-tested enough that I haven't made a point to apply them only one at a time so I could identify faulty ones, as I found it necessary to do in past years.
I had neither one of the issues mentioned in this thread; but did have a single workstation (out of about 25) start spewing windows file protection error messages for almost every system file. The disturbing thing was that even after the box had access to the installation media (which wfp uses to roll back to the original file), the errors just kept coming. In the event log, the service was writing more error messages saying that the file could not be replaced because the signatures didn't match. I'm planning on reinstalling; but didn't have time this week so I disabled wfp by hex editing sfp.dll to turn the damn thing off. (Incidentally, I *love* windoze services that you can't control. That way I can't accidentally hurt myself. Thanks MS!) The machine is SP4 fully patched with virusscan fully updated. I did some additional security auditing and didn't find anything strange. Everything started going to hell after applying the latest patches. Anyone else? Geoff Froh Technical Manager Densho 1416 S. Jackson St. Seattle, WA 98144 US (v) 1.206.320.0095 (f) 1.206.320.0098 (e) geoff.froh () densho org (w) www.densho.org
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- Re: After Ms patches last Wed ... Dan Harkless (Apr 17)
- RE: After Ms patches last Wed ... Alun Jones (Apr 17)
- RE: After Ms patches last Wed ... phaser-X (Apr 19)
- Re: After Ms patches last Wed ... Scott Gifford (Apr 17)
- Re: After Ms patches last Wed ... Jerry Winegarden (Apr 19)
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- Re: After Ms patches last Wed ... Alex Cruz (Apr 19)
- Re: After Ms patches last Wed ... T.H. Haymore (Apr 19)
- RE: After Ms patches last Wed ... Brito, Nelson (ISS Brazil) (Apr 19)
- RE: After Ms patches last Wed ... David Hayden (Apr 19)
- Re: After Ms patches last Wed ... geoff . froh (Apr 20)
- Re: After Ms patches last Wed ... Greg Kujawa (Apr 20)
- RE: After Ms patches last Wed ... David Hayden (Apr 30)