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Posted on 11/30/2009 10:57:10 AM PST by Gomez
Microsoft's latest round of security patches appears to be causing some PCs to seize up and display a black screen, rending the computer useless.
Microsoft's latest round of security patches appears to be causing some PCs to seize up and display a black screen, rending the computer useless.
(Excerpt) Read more at pcworld.com ...
It would have been nice if they would post exactly which updates that are causing the problems. So far, we haven’t seen this happen with any of our machines.
So, Windows 7 upgraded from the ‘Blue Screen of Death’ to the ‘Black Screen of Death’?
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Better than the blue screen of death.../sarc.
I had a Vista machine do this a few months back, don’t know if it was related to this patch or not. It was a real pain to fix it. I wish I could get everybody in the house to migrate away from MS. I have one of the kids running Linux, I need to get the others to as well.
In other news: Windows 7 found to be vulnerable to 7 out of 10 randomly selected malware.
Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a working version of Windows out of my hat!
It’s not the BLACK screen of Death.....it’s just DARK GRAY.
Or maybe somewhere else?
I had TWO laptops do this while installing Service Pack 2 on Vista...what gives???
For what operating systems?
Ping!
Drag your feet on some of those upgrades maybe.
Never heard of Prevx.
If I have it right, it sounds like they had a patch for the ACL vulnerability before Microsoft, and then when Microsoft released a patch for the same thing, it messed up some computers with the Prevx software.
Win7 works, and works exceedingly well.
So far, none of the updates, including the one in this threads article have caused any problems in any of my machines.
I submit that DOS 4, Windows 386, ME and Vista were certainly all pulled from somewhere else.
The article seems to indicate all of them, xp, vista (xp with a girdle) and windows7 (xp with a girdle and lipstick). I have not heard of this with my corporate customer or my chuch’s network, so there must be some kind of unique trigger for it.
“We fixed all the problems, trust me.”
- Bill Gates
I have all the latest Win 7 updates, and my machine is working as smoothly as ever. No sign of “deaths” here, black, blue, green or whatever.
7 still going here. Haven’t any problems yet.
When you add on "security" as something you can easily disable, it's not security.
Win7 works, and works exceedingly well.
Perhaps in comparison to Vista. In comparison to other operating systems? Not so much.
So far, none of the updates, including the one in this threads article have caused any problems in any of my machines.
Well, bully for you.
Meanwhile other people are having a problem. And one day, you'll have a problem. Maybe a bunch of people will just post, "Works for me!" That'll be a big help for you now won't it?
Just don’t smoke around your apple, or you’ve never get them to provide maintenance.
oh yeah, apples never break so you don’t need maintenance. right? right??
Gates:
No! There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
FOCUS:
Oh, my God. I always get mad at my computer if MS Word swallows the page numbers of a document which I printed a couple of times with page numbers. If I complain to anybody they say "Well, upgrade from version 5.11 to 6.0".
Gates:
No! If you really think there's a bug you should report a bug. Maybe you're not using it properly. Have you ever considered that?
FOCUS Magazine Interview with William H. Gates III
That's right. All of that malware, all of the crashes, all of the data loss....
It's all YOUR FAULT!
I wouldn't know. I don't own a current Apple.
A third-party application should not be allowed to crash the operating system.
If it can, the operating system is defective.
I can see by your response you still haven’t bothered to actually read the article...
Just doesn’t make sense to attack Microsoft. They’ve largely been responsible for putting a computer into nearly every home in the developed world.
Apple could never have done that, they are lucky to be alive today. IBM certainly didn’t have the vision.
However, the latest patches appear to make some changes to those registry keys. The effect is that some installed applications aren't aware of the changes and don't run properly, causing a black screen, Morris said.
And you'd be wrong to think that.
Synopsis. Windows 7. Third party app installed. Everything works. Microsoft puts out a patch that changes registry. System crashes on boot.
Did I miss anything, scooter?
Yet another thread, where certain microsoft supporters just can't resist insulting folks who prefer to use something else.
Note there is no namecalling by anyone else on this thread.
“I had TWO laptops do this while installing Service Pack 2 on Vista...what gives???”
I had 2 computers slow by a factor of 100 after installing XP’s SP2. That was awesome. Things went back to normal after I deleted SP2 then fought for a year with the automatic update system that was trying to put it back on.
Yeah those apple weenies NEVER throw insults at Microsoft users.
/huge sarcasm
For instance, it doesn't detail which MS patch causes the problem....just one of "15 released on Nov 10th".
And, the only fix is to go to a website of a company that I've never heard of (Prevx) and download an executable that will "patch" my system? And....the only two comments regarding this patch on the Prevx site are from the same person?
Something stinks, here. I'll believe it when I see MS address the issue.
They should at least sell adspace on it.
“Things went back to normal after I deleted SP2 then fought for a year with the automatic update system that was trying to put it back on.”
Or you coulda fixed the problem.
Or you coulda told your PC to ignore SP2 which has a lot of important patches.
But no, its more fun to poke the giant.
And yet here's this very thread. Not a pro-Apple post to be seen. And it's the Microsoft partisans who can't resist starting the namecalling.
And spam into every mailbox. And botnets that are millions strong.
Apple could never have done that, they are lucky to be alive today.
Funny. It was Apple that put PCs into the public lexicon and into millions of homes. The IBM PC and Microsoft was considered a business-only envirnoment.
IBM certainly didn’t have the vision.
Oh wow. You might recall that the platform that Windows runs on is called the IBM platform. Without IBM little Billy Gates would be a complete failure. If it wasn't for his mommy getting him an interview with IBM, CP/M would have been the dominant OS on early IBM PCs. Microsoft would only be seen as a footnote on Wikipedia's Traf-O-Data page.
IBM had the vision with OS/2. What IBM lacked was an honest, uncorrupted media.
Yes, a third-party app. Which, if installed when you apply the Microsoft patch, crashes the OS.
That's the point. An operating system which allows an application to CRASH THE OS, is a defective OS.
That it only happens with this particular application is beside the point.
The problem is that it shouldn't be possible at all.
Microsoft knows this and they keep saying that the next version of Windows will not allow applications to interfere with the OS, and yet here we are again with Microsoft's newest OS having exactly the same problem as it's always had.
Which is a pretty big screwup, scooter.
Actually if you go to post 3 you will see the MS insults starting.
“And spam into every mailbox.”
So Macs dont get SPAM?
“It was Apple that put PCs into the public lexicon and into millions of homes. The IBM PC and Microsoft was considered a business-only envirnoment.”
Millions? Apple was bankrupt after the IIe
“Oh wow. You might recall that the platform that Windows runs on is called the IBM platform”
Yep, the IBM clone that IBM thought was useless except for universities and govt offices. Hence my comment that IBM lacked the vision. the only thing they did was allow clones.
Apple won’t even do that.
Microsoft Announces Windows 8 ...
Meanwhile apple continues to hawk its technology based on proprietary hardware and a 1970s based operating system.
That’s not an insult, it’s a ‘feature’
I assume, then, that since PC World reported this article, they must be anti-PC, too.
And apple announces another pretty release of the same ole thing that probably overheats.
Wow, didn't take long for some people to stop talking about Microsoft's latest patch problems and start flinging insults.
I guess when the message isn't in your favor it's just easier to attack the messenger.
Fact: William H. Gates III got his interview with IBM management because she and IBM president John R. Opel were both on the board of the United Way. She asked Opel to help out and he did.
Sorry if the facts get in the way of your tongue bath of Microsoft.
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