Latest Patches for XP

[MAP]

>-----Original Message-----
>I updated my Home edition last evening (02/10/03)with
the
>latest security patches and now when I go to YAHOO.COM
or
>to the games section or even my dominoes league all I
get
>is a blank white page. Can i get some assistance?
>
>.
>As with most of these patches there is one thing to
consider before installing and this is from M/S own site

Mitigating factors:

In the most likely exploitable scenario, an attacker
would have to have direct access to the user's network.

Other patches say that an attacker would need direct
access to your keyboard! How likely is that with a stand
alone home system?


From a newsletter I recieve:

Problems with Latest IE 6.0 Patch
If you haven't installed Microsoft's latest patch for
Internet Explorer 6.0, then don't. The patch disabled the
use of my company's implementation of its content
management system, and I'm hearing from IT managers and
consultants that they've encountered problems too. The
patch in question is described this way in Automatic
Updates and Windows Update:

"Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 6
Service Pack 1 (Q832894)" released Feb. 2, 2004.

If you've installed this thing, it is easy to uninstall.
You'll find an entry in the Add or Remove Programs
Control Panel that reads:

"Internet Explorer Q832894"

Simply click the Change/Remove button. You'll need to
restart your PC at the end of this brief process.

Note: Your system will be at increased risk for the
specific security flaws the patch addresses if you choose
not to install it or remove it your system. There's a
chance Microsoft may issue an update to this patch in the
future. This TechWeb story implies that it may have done
so already, in fact, though I can find no evidence of
that in tests on my systems.

I do not recommend deciding never to install this patch.
Moreover, the problems with the patch -- which appear to
affect Web authentication and Java apps -- may not affect
you at all. But on my systems, because of the work-
related issue, I am delaying Q832894's installation.

[Tom Barclay]

I also had problems with this patch. Immediately after updating, my XP Pro
system immediately started experiencing system crashes related to Windows
Explorer. After about a dozen hard restarts, I uninstalled the update, and
the system worked fine again. The only casualty was a game (The Sims) which
I tried to run, and which evidently got corrupted in the process, and which
I now have to reinstall.
--
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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then
the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

"MAP" > wrote in message
...
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I updated my Home edition last evening (02/10/03)with
> the
> >latest security patches and now when I go to YAHOO.COM
> or
> >to the games section or even my dominoes league all I
> get
> >is a blank white page. Can i get some assistance?
> >
> >.
> >As with most of these patches there is one thing to
> consider before installing and this is from M/S own site
>
> Mitigating factors:
>
> In the most likely exploitable scenario, an attacker
> would have to have direct access to the user's network.
>
> Other patches say that an attacker would need direct
> access to your keyboard! How likely is that with a stand
> alone home system?
>
>
> From a newsletter I recieve:
>
> Problems with Latest IE 6.0 Patch
> If you haven't installed Microsoft's latest patch for
> Internet Explorer 6.0, then don't. The patch disabled the
> use of my company's implementation of its content
> management system, and I'm hearing from IT managers and
> consultants that they've encountered problems too. The
> patch in question is described this way in Automatic
> Updates and Windows Update:
>
> "Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 6
> Service Pack 1 (Q832894)" released Feb. 2, 2004.
>
> If you've installed this thing, it is easy to uninstall.
> You'll find an entry in the Add or Remove Programs
> Control Panel that reads:
>
> "Internet Explorer Q832894"
>
> Simply click the Change/Remove button. You'll need to
> restart your PC at the end of this brief process.
>
> Note: Your system will be at increased risk for the
> specific security flaws the patch addresses if you choose
> not to install it or remove it your system. There's a
> chance Microsoft may issue an update to this patch in the
> future. This TechWeb story implies that it may have done
> so already, in fact, though I can find no evidence of
> that in tests on my systems.
>
> I do not recommend deciding never to install this patch.
> Moreover, the problems with the patch -- which appear to
> affect Web authentication and Java apps -- may not affect
> you at all. But on my systems, because of the work-
> related issue, I am delaying Q832894's installation.
>