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• Microsoft yanks botched patch KB 2949927, re-issues KB 2952664

  Posted on October 17, 2014 at 12:51 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  More monkey business.

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  Windows Patches/Security KB 2949927, KB 2952664, October 2014 Black Tuesday

• Windows 7 patch KB 2952664 fails with error 80242016

  Posted on October 15, 2014 at 11:33 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Microsoft keeps trying and trying… and nobody seems to know what they’re trying to do!

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  Windows Patches/Security 80242016, KB 2952664

• Flash Player update and KB 2952664

  Posted on July 11, 2014 at 20:40 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  This just in from ER…

  Adobe has released a new set of Flash Player security updates this July
  in Adobe Security bulletin APSB14-17:
  https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-17.html

  earlier this month you recommended to install the KB2952664 update
  for Windows 7 users.  Recently, Microsoft quietly “revised” the
  KB2952664 updates in mid-June (V2) and again in early July and now they’re
  at V3.

  Here are the direct download links to V3 of the Windows 7 KB2952664 updates
  as I’ve gathered them from the BITS logs from Event Viewer on Win7 while
  searching for KB2952664 from the Microsoft Update Catalog site:

  KB2952664 for x64/64bit Windows 7 SP1:
  http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/updt/2014/07/windows6.1-kb2952664-v3-x64_14f057154dbfc1f2658029f7745b49f4a088d7e4.msu

  KB2952664 for x86/32bit Windows 7 SP1:
  http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/updt/2014/07/windows6.1-kb2952664-v3-x86_082b2bd3ceaf809a7eee3e9faba5a79f78b92144.msu

  For those who have installed the “original” version of KB2952664 back in late April
  or sometime in May, uninstall that one and install the revised KB2952664 patch.

  Fascinating. The KB article is still at version 1.0. Somebody’s playing fast and loose with the generally accepted patching principles.

  Windows Patches/Security Flash Player, KB 2952664

• Microsoft confuses Windows 7 users with sudden release of KB 2952664

  Posted on April 24, 2014 at 06:36 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Unless you intend to do an in-place upgrade from Win7 to Win8, you can skip this one.

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  Windows Patches/Security KB 2952664
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