Microsoft Telling Users To Uninstall Bad Patch 154
msm1267 writes "Microsoft announced last night that it has stopped pushing a security update originally released on Patch Tuesday because the fix is causing some PCs to blue-screen. Microsoft recommends users uninstall the patch, which is also causing compatibility issues with some endpoint security software. MS13-036 was part of this week's Patch Tuesday update. It addressed three vulnerabilities in the Windows Kernel-Mode Driver, which if exploited could allow an attacker to elevate their privileges on a compromised machine. Users began reporting issues earlier this week with some systems failing to recover from restarts, or applications failing to load, after the patch was installed."
Re:One driver eh? (Score:3, Insightful)
FAIL ... yes, I know, if you're going to edit troll it helps if you can post a properly written post yourself ... I failed :(
Re:Why I never auto-install updates (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Why I never auto-install updates (Score:5, Insightful)
And if your business is worth a shit, their own strategy is even more careful and rigorous than what the GP posted.
Re:Windows versions affected (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't know that answer, but I would hope that the answer was "quite a lot of it". Old cold is not bad code, it is the code that has generally stood the test of time. Not that it is defect free, but that the defect rates are generally lower than the newly written code. Even such basic steps as recompiling for 64-bit, causes new breakage (old code was defective, but the problem was masked). This appears likely to be one of those old problems that became unmasked with the latest patch.
Re:Here's how to uninstall it.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Kudos for providing some actual useful info for an MS product on Slashdot. Unfortunately it's a rarity around these parts.