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John McGaw
Flightless Bird
Just got done installing the latest patch to fix whatever deadly IE hole it
was that allowed the Google attack. Five machines. 1 Win 7 and 4 XP Pro.
After doing the mandatory reboots at the end two of the XP machines wound
up with destroyed profiles. It seems that nobody at MS bothered to test
(test? what is test?) the process of installing the patch and rebooting via
remote desktop -- the way I routinely perform all tasks on machines outside
my office. I wasn't alerted to that situation, having had years of random
mysterious profile corruptions occurring, before I tried to log into the
second machine and had it go belly up too. Made my way the the other two XP
machines personally and logged in and they survived.
So I guess I'll be spending even more time trying to recover from something
which should never have been allowed to happen in the first place. Leaves
me wondering what will happen if MS ever gets around to trying to patch
that ancient hole which has been around since NT days and which exists in
all operating systems ever since. They could wind up bringing on the
apocalypse.
was that allowed the Google attack. Five machines. 1 Win 7 and 4 XP Pro.
After doing the mandatory reboots at the end two of the XP machines wound
up with destroyed profiles. It seems that nobody at MS bothered to test
(test? what is test?) the process of installing the patch and rebooting via
remote desktop -- the way I routinely perform all tasks on machines outside
my office. I wasn't alerted to that situation, having had years of random
mysterious profile corruptions occurring, before I tried to log into the
second machine and had it go belly up too. Made my way the the other two XP
machines personally and logged in and they survived.
So I guess I'll be spending even more time trying to recover from something
which should never have been allowed to happen in the first place. Leaves
me wondering what will happen if MS ever gets around to trying to patch
that ancient hole which has been around since NT days and which exists in
all operating systems ever since. They could wind up bringing on the
apocalypse.