Privx Offers "Fix" for Black Screen of Death
Andy Walker
Death" that thousands of Windows users have experienced recently. The
problem appears to be related to a Windows Defender update (KB915597)
and a recent cumulative timezone update
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976098).
Read the Privx blog for more information:
Default User
wrote:
"Microsoft has finished its investigation into claims that a recently
released patch is causing a black screen of death and says it's just not
true. The company's Security Response Center blog says, "We�ve investigated
these reports and found that our November Security Updates are not making
changes to the system that these reports say are responsible for these
issues."
A Microsoft spokesperson told Microsoft Subnet, "The company has found
those reports to be inaccurate and our comprehensive investigation has
shown that none of the recently released updates are related to the
behavior described in the reports. While we were not contacted by the
organization who originally made these reports, we have proactively
contacted them with our findings."
According to Microsoft, none of the patches in the November Patch Tuesday,
nor the changes in the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, nor any of
the non-security related updates pushed out in November make "any changes
to the permissions in the registry."
Microsoft Security goes it one better -- saying that the company has not
received a lot of customer support questions about BSODs and then hints
that the BSOD might be caused by a virus, such as Daonol. That's a subtle
slap at the wrist at the company that gained a bit of notoriety by going
public with its conclusions of a faulty patch, instead of quietly coming to
Microsoft. The company that reported the bad patch was Prevx, makers of
anti-malware software. Prevx even went so far as to offer for free its own
fix for the allegedly faulty patch. Microsoft's hint that a six-month-old
Trojan may really be to blame comes awfully close to saying that Prevx's
software can't be trusted to detect such things for its users."
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48668?hpg1=bn
siljaline
Not that I would run anything Prevx claims works (opinion) here's a thread of note >
<http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r23414750-Prevx-says-MS-Nov-10-patches-causing-BSOD-problems>
Silj
--
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_
Andy Walker
>Andy Walker wrote:
>> Read the Privx blog for more information:
>>
>> http://www.prevx.com/blog.asp
>
>Not that I would run anything Prevx claims works (opinion) here's a thread of note >
><http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r23414750-Prevx-says-MS-Nov-10-patches-causing-BSOD-problems>
I know one person that has had this problem and gave her the link to
the Prevx site to try. I'll find out tomorrow if she was able to fix
the issue.
I did get a laugh out of the article posted by Default User...