Re: After Ms patches last Wed ...

[geoff.froh@xxxxxxxxxx]

> I was told a Win2K user at work experienced the same thing.  Seems that
> Microsoft may not have spent enough time testing one of these patches on the
> Win2K platform.  Dunno which one, since in recent years I'd found
> Microsoft's patches to be well-tested enough that I haven't made a point to
> apply them only one at a time so I could identify faulty ones, as I found it
> necessary to do in past years.

I had neither one of the issues mentioned in this thread; but did have a single 
workstation (out of about 25) start spewing windows file protection error 
messages for almost every system file. The disturbing thing was that even after 
the box had access to the installation media (which wfp uses to roll back to 
the original file), the errors just kept coming. In the event log, the service 
was writing more error messages saying that the file could not be replaced 
because the signatures didn't match.

I'm planning on reinstalling; but didn't have time this week so I disabled wfp 
by hex editing sfp.dll to turn the damn thing off. (Incidentally, I *love* 
windoze services that you can't control. That way I can't accidentally hurt 
myself. Thanks MS!)

The machine is SP4 fully patched with virusscan fully updated. I did some 
additional security auditing and didn't find anything strange. Everything 
started going to hell after applying the latest patches.

Anyone else?

Geoff Froh
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