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• Microsoft rereleases botched December patch KB 3004394 — and it works

  Posted on February 18, 2015 at 08:46 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Thanks to JB and MM for the heads-up, and SB for corroboration.

  Remember that monster patch from last December — the one that required a Silver Bullet patch to zap it away? The Root Cert patch is back – and it seems to be working.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch

  Uncategorized December 2014 Black Tuesday, KB 3004394

• Microsoft’s December patch hangover: KB 3008923 unrepentant; Fixit for some 2553154, 2726958 problems; 3004394 dead; and 3011970 re-issued

  Posted on January 6, 2015 at 14:38 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  What a mess.

  If you know of any other problems, please comment on the InfoWorld article!

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Windows Patches/Security December 2014 Black Tuesday, KB 2553154, KB 2726958, KB 3004394, KB 3008923, KB 3011970

• Microsoft recommends that you uninstall botched patch KB 3004394

  Posted on December 11, 2014 at 16:01 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I’m shaking my head, wondering how in the world MS let a patch like that go out with so many bugs…

  InfoWorld Tech Watch

  Windows Patches/Security KB 3004394

• Botch brigade: KB 2553154, 2726958 clobber Excel ActiveX; KB 3011970 Silverlight and KB 3004394 Root Cert both pulled

  Posted on December 11, 2014 at 07:35 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  But wait! There’s more!

  KB 3008923 crashes IE, KB 3002339 still hanging on install, KB 2986475 still pulled.

  Details at InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  I just had an independently reported crash, from PB:

  I wanted to mention that I work for a small company and starting yesterday everyone in the office started getting IE failure messages “Internet Explorer has stopped working A problem caused the program to stop working correctly……. Close Program” I have found that be removing the new update KB3008923 has resolved the problem on all computers.

   Thanks, PB

   

  Windows Patches/Security December 2014 Black Tuesday, KB 2553154, KB 2726958, KB 2986475, KB 3002339, KB 3004394, KB 3008923, KB 3011970

• Botched KB 3004394 triggers UACs and Diagnostic Tool error 8000706f7, Catalyst driver fail, Defender error 2147023113

  Posted on December 10, 2014 at 13:07 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Another bad one. 

  But you have Automatic Update turned off, right?

  InfoWorld Tech Watch

  Windows Patches/Security KB 3004394