Microsoft .NET Patch May Make PCs Go "Haywire" 212
yuna49 writes "Various people are reporting that the MS07-040 patch for .NET released on Tuesday can cause a variety of seemingly unrelated problems. According to the SANS Internet Storm Center 'the reports we got so far seem not to lead to any specific thing that happens in many cases, just various things going haywire.' Some commentators on The Register's report of this story indicate that the patch failed to install at all, while others report things like the mouse suddenly failing to work or long periods of hard drive thrashing. In some cases a hard reboot seems to fix the problem, but other reports suggest that a reinstallation of the .NET framework itself is required. The problems may be related to the MSCORSVW.EXE process which recompiles all the .NET assemblies when the patch is downloaded. While the recompilations are supposed to run as a background task, in some instances the recompilation will drive the processor to 100% usage."
ProcessExplorer task manager replacement (Score:3, Informative)
Win 2k not affected? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Win2003 (Score:5, Informative)
XP is actually pretty solid... (Score:1, Informative)
Quit clicking on every shiny ad you see - you won't get an Xbox for catching a monkey.
Re:Win 2k not affected? (Score:1, Informative)
Its nothing to do with admins folders or rights but more to do with a 450+mb temp file being scanned that is created in your
i discovered this temp file creation when a box told me it was out of space with a 1gb free (should be enough) which i thought was odd seeing as the patch was only 8mb
so i did a quick scan of the system using SpaceMonger (an app that visualises file space and shows you which files are large and where) and sure enough there was a huge temp file in the NET directory (it was deleted after patching)
Knowing won't help (Score:3, Informative)
See:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928365/ [microsoft.com]
Which leads to:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923100/ [microsoft.com]
and
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934711/ [microsoft.com]
and
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923101/ [microsoft.com]
and
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934793/ [microsoft.com]
and
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931846/ [microsoft.com]
923100 says if you get hosed doing the update, uninstall