{"id":8966,"date":"2017-08-29T04:30:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T12:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/29\/news-2739\/"},"modified":"2017-08-29T04:30:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T12:30:03","slug":"news-2739","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/29\/news-2739\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft yanks buggy patch of a buggy patch, KB 4039884"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.techhive.com\/images\/article\/2016\/02\/thinkstockphotos-bugs-ingram-publishing-100645308-primary.idge.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 05:18:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no official confirmation, and no explanation of course, but overnight Microsoft pulled a patch that was supposed to fix the main problems in this month\u2019s Windows 7 security updates. I talked about the repair hotfix yesterday in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3219738\/microsoft-windows\/microsoft-repairs-buggy-win7-security-patch-with-buggy-hotfix-kb-4039884.html\">Microsoft repairs buggy Win7 security patch with buggy hotfix KB 4039884<\/a>.&#8221; Today, the repair hotfix isn\u2019t available any more.<\/p>\n<p>All we know for sure is that, sometime last night, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catalog.update.microsoft.com\/Search.aspx?q=KB4039884\">Microsoft Update Catalog entry for KB 4039884<\/a> disappeared. As of early Tuesday morning, Eastern time, the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4039884\/windows-7-update-kb4039884\">KB article<\/a> is still available, and it hasn\u2019t been modified \u2014 it still points to the Update Catalog.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the errors I reported yesterday, we\u2019re seeing a whole crop of new problems with KB 4039884. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.askwoody.com\/forums\/topic\/microsoft-patches-buggy-windows-7-patch-kb-4039884-solves-the-dual-monitor-rendering-problem\/#post-130862\">@MrBrian on AskWoody says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>I tested KB4039884 in a Windows 7 x64 virtual machine last updated in Sept. 2016. It replaces some files with older versions &#8230; for some files KB4039884 installs GDR versions of files, replacing existing LDR versions of files. The good news is that uninstalling KB4039884 seems to undo these issues, and I recommend doing so if you already installed KB4039884. \u2026 Some of the old file versions that are installed by KB4039884 likely have security vulnerabilities that were fixed in newer versions. Thus, installing KB4039884 probably exposes your computer to fixed security issues.<\/p>\n<p>An anonymous poster says:<\/p>\n<p>Installing KB4039884 deleted \u201cD3DCompiler_47.dll\u201d from my system32 folder, causing Dell\u2019s SupportAssist to fail. Uninstalling the update fixed the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing like the aroma of PCs fried in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re waiting to install the August Windows 7 security patches \u2014 KB 4034664, KB 4034679, or KB 4034670 \u2014 I suggest you continue to wait.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we\u2019ll get a new patch today, the fourth Tuesday of the month. Maybe it\u2019ll work. Or maybe not.<\/p>\n<p><em>There\u2019s a lengthy discussion that you\u2019re welcome to join on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.askwoody.com\/forums\/topic\/microsoft-patches-buggy-windows-7-patch-kb-4039884-solves-the-dual-monitor-rendering-problem\/#post-131022\">AskWoody Lounge<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3220665\/microsoft-windows\/microsoft-yanks-buggy-patch-of-a-buggy-patch-kb-4039884.html#tk.rss_security\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/category\/security\/index.rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.techhive.com\/images\/article\/2016\/02\/thinkstockphotos-bugs-ingram-publishing-100645308-primary.idge.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 05:18:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n<article>\n<section class=\"page\">\n<p>There\u2019s no official confirmation, and no explanation of course, but overnight Microsoft pulled a patch that was supposed to fix the main problems in this month\u2019s Windows 7 security updates. I talked about the repair hotfix yesterday in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3219738\/microsoft-windows\/microsoft-repairs-buggy-win7-security-patch-with-buggy-hotfix-kb-4039884.html\">Microsoft repairs buggy Win7 security patch with buggy hotfix KB 4039884<\/a>.&#8221; Today, the repair hotfix isn\u2019t available any more.<\/p>\n<p>All we know for sure is that, sometime last night, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catalog.update.microsoft.com\/Search.aspx?q=KB4039884\">Microsoft Update Catalog entry for KB 4039884<\/a> disappeared. As of early Tuesday morning, Eastern time, the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4039884\/windows-7-update-kb4039884\">KB article<\/a> is still available, and it hasn\u2019t been modified \u2014 it still points to the Update Catalog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"\/article\/3220665\/microsoft-windows\/microsoft-yanks-buggy-patch-of-a-buggy-patch-kb-4039884.html#jump\">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[11062,10643],"tags":[714,10525],"class_list":["post-8966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computerworld","category-independent","tag-security","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}