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• MS-DEFCON 2: Time to temporarily block Windows Update – and ignore KB 3008923

  Posted on May 8, 2017 at 14:32 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Check to make sure you have automatic update turned off.

  InfoWorld Woody on Windows

  Windows Patches/Security KB 3008923, May 2017 Black Tuesday

• December 2014 IE patch KB 3008923 is back

  Posted on May 6, 2017 at 09:06 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I’m seeing reports all over that the highly problematic KB 3008923 is back. I wrote about the continuing problems in January 2015.

  It’s the patch behind MS14-080. Back on Feb. 11, 2015, Microsoft reported this issue:

  We are aware of some reports of functional issues on sites that use nested modal dialog boxes on Internet Explorer 11 that occur after you install this security update.

  To resolve this issue, install update 3025390. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  3025390 Some web application modal dialog boxes don’t work correctly in Internet Explorer 11 after you install update 3008923

  It appears as checked, important on machines that are, ahem, lucky enough to see it.

  Windows Patches/Security KB 3008923

• 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 ships KB 3025390 to fix IE 11 modal dialog screw-ups in KB 3008923

  Posted on December 17, 2014 at 17:07 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Still no word on IE 9 crashes

  (Edit: the patch is KB 3025390. Ooops.)

  InfoWorld Tech Watch

  Windows Patches/Security KB 3008923, KB 3025390, KB 3025930

• 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