• MS-DEFCON 5: Get patched now

    Posted on September 2, 2009 at 19:54 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    There have been a few minor problems with the August Black Tuesday patches, but nothing seems to have turned belly-up. Right now is a good time to get completely patched up – apply all outstanding Microsoft patches.

    Yes, I know there are ongoing problems with the .NET Framework patches, but I’ve already thrown in the towel on those.

    After you’re patched up, make sure your computer is set to notify but don’t download or install updates. Another crop of security bulletins is due next Tuesday.

    I’m moving us down to MS-DEFCON 5: All’s clear. Patch while it’s safe.

    One historical note: Microsoft discovered a bug in Vista Service Pack 2 that caused it to crash some systems with a Blue Screen of Death error 0xc0000034. Details on the TechNet blog. There was also a problem that caused an error 0x0000007e or 0x00000050, which has been fixed in an update to SP2, as documented in Knowledge Base article 973879.

    At this point, those of you running Vista should be absolutely convinced that you want to upgrade to Windows 7. And if you’re definitely going to upgrade to Win7, I don’t see any reason at all to install Vista Service Pack 2.

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