Re: Q323172 Update trashes Outlook Express, NAV and others

From: pcrcs (pcrcs_at_valley-internet.net)
Date: 03/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 06:49:15 -0800

Hey, the Q323172 update showed up as the first update in
the list of critical updates FROM Windows Update Service.
If Max is correct, then why is Microsoft recommending a
Windows 2000 two year old fix for a Windows XP?? You say
a user problem, but how many users would have caught
this? How many users will understand what they read in
the brief explanation provided by Microsoft? If they
understand anything at all regarding these damn critical
updates, they understand that they had better accept all
of the critical updates to prevent security holes.
Apparently now you may be telling us that Microsoft's
examination of the computer and it's presentation of the
critical update list is flawed? Why am I not surprised?
Or should I be asking what's the alternative? And going
back to this problem, is there a way to correct this
apparent corruption of the system caused by a wrong update?
 
>-----Original Message-----
>"Max Burke" <mlvburke@%$%#@.nz> squirted these wordjisms
deep inside the
>bumtube of the newstwat in
news:efAkdh#EEHA.684@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl:
>
>>> pcrcs scribbled:
>>> My customer downloaded the Q323172 Windows Update
>>> yesterday morning and now the Norton Antivirus is
trashed,
>>> Outlook Express will not open, I cannot open the
Regedit,
>>> nor will Msconfig open. When I try to run the Restore
to
>>> a time previous to this update, there are no choices
>>> available. When I try to uninstall the update it
warns me
>>> that a whole bunch of programs will be affected by the
>>> removal of this update. Anyone with ideas on how to
undo
>>> this problem that Microsoft has created???
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/critical/q32
3172/default
>> .asp
>>
>> Q323172: Security Update
>> Posted: August 28, 2002
>>
>> Read Me First
>> This update resolves the "Flaw in Digital Certificate
Enrolment
>> Component Allows Certificate Deletion" security
vulnerability in
>> Windows 2000. Download now to help stop a Web site or
HTML e-mail from
>> deleting digital certificates on your computer and
preventing you from
>> using the services they are associated with.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Note the DATE for this security update.
>>
>> Note the OPERATING SYSTEM for this update.
>>
>> Note what this security fix is FIXING.
>>
>> It's NOT a Microsoft mess; It's a USER mess.
>>
>> Why did they decide that a security update from August
2002 for
>> windows 2000 needed to be installed on a computer
running XP in
>> 2004????
>>
>>
>> Dilbert: Do you suppose that love is the greatest known
force in the
>> Universe?
>> Dogbert: No, Stupidity is the greatest known force in
the universe...
>
>
>LOL!
>
>--
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