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
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Subscribe to commentsDial erApr 19th 2006 5:22PM
I'm tired of this patches... When there will be a normal releas of operating system?! (a question to the air)
PeterApr 19th 2006 6:28PM
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.
rtmsApr 19th 2006 9:40PM
Ahh, glad to see what happened to me was not isolated. I lost my network connections etc when those patches came.
reubenApr 20th 2006 7:01PM
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!
PeterApr 20th 2006 7:08PM
I installed all these patches on about 25 desktops at work and 3 systems at home with no problems.