Re: Security Update 811493 Causes Slowdown?

From: Tomothy Quntington-Flitoris (IainMcLaren35@spamtwatter.hotmail.com)
Date: 04/18/03 

From: "Tomothy Quntington-Flitoris" <IainMcLaren35@spamtwatter.hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:40:29 -0700

"Matt" <m.bruce@sbcglobal.net> squirted these wordjisms deep inside the
bumtube of the newstwat in news:07ac01c304f8$562d0f60$a401280a@phx.gbl:

> I've had the same problem after installing the 811493
> security patch as well. I removed it with system restore
> and all went back to normal. I have a post at security-
> general security discussion. I see that there are other
> people with the same problems after installing this
> patch. Is there an updated patch coming, or a work around
> for this security flaw that won't cause these performance
> slow downs? I'm using Windows XP Home, 1.6 ghz pent 4,
> 512 DDR, with 60gb & 120gb harddrives, fully updated(with
> the exception of this one), no viruses or spyware.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've got a month old Dell WinXPHome, SP1 machine. It
>>runs at 2.4ghz, with 512mb ram. The 60gb hard drive only
>>has 6gb of data. It used to load programs very fast.
>>This morning, I installed Security Update:
>>
>>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
>>US;Q811493
>>
>>Now, programs load very, very slow. For instance, when I
>>launch IE, the hour glass stays on for about 3 seconds,
>>then disappears for 3 seconds, then reappears for another
>>3 seconds, and finally, IE loads up. This also happens
>>with other apps.
>>
>>Once it took so long to load an app that I hit ctrl-alt-
>>del to get task manager to see what was going on.
>>Everything looked normal, but when I did an end task on
>>each of the few programs that were running, I got a
>>message that Windows Task Scheduler could not end, and
>>did I want to end task. I wasn't aware that it was
>>running, so I ended it, too. All other programs ended
>>orderly, with no warnings.
>>
>>CPU usage is 2%. No viruses, or spyware.
>>
>>Could the update, above, have caused this?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Bruce
>>.
>>
>

Yes I'm in exactly the same position re every update but this one. As are
many others it seems.

Perhaps a MS employee would care to comment on this? 

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Iain McLaren
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