Security and Critical updates

[Wayne Carlson]

I installed A security update #811493 on april 16th, and
a critical update #Q817287 the same date , and windows
has been freezing and acting erratically since , Any
Ideas? on how to fix this.
Thanks
Wayne

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

Wayne Carlson wrote:

> I installed A security update #811493 on april 16th, and
> a critical update #Q817287 the same date , and windows
> has been freezing and acting erratically since , Any
> Ideas? on how to fix this.

Hi

811493 is not working good on a lot of computers (MS is now aware of this), and
you should remove it using Add/remove Programs in the Control Panel. You should
not need to remove 817287.

The 811493 fix is not critical really, it is rated as "Important" only by MS.
More here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811493
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-013.asp

e.g. this:
"For an attack to be successful, an attacker would need to be able to logon
interactively to the system, either at the console or through a terminal
session."

I am not going to install this fix on any computer...

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