[ OT ] Patch Tuesday results fom Feb. 09

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In lieu of Robin often asking, all that I've seen have passed with little or not issues.
I got 10 critical and one for Office on my XP Pro SP3 (Dell OEM) box.
A restart was required.
 
I have not asked because since last wednesday I have been in the hospital.
I have had a fever, severe pain in my head and ear on the right side. This
started last friday and was getting worse so wed I was hospitilazed. I had
a surgical procedure and biopsy to one of the arteries near my ear lobe
because they think it might be inflammmed and if so could lead to blindness.
Since the fever broke on tuesday and the results of the biopsy will not be
till friday, given to the fact that there is a major snowstorm here today
the doctors allowed me to go home last night. I am on steriods and other
meds and right now I am lying on my sofa typing this from my laptop to see
what is going on in here

I have no strength to do anything but veg but I wanted to at least see how
many security updates there are so hopefully by this weekend when I get some
strength back I can go on my own machines and do the updates.

then prepare my clients.
robin
 
robinb said:
I have not asked because since last wednesday I have been in the
hospital. I have had a fever, severe pain in my head and ear on the
right side. This started last friday and was getting worse so wed I
was hospitilazed. I had a surgical procedure and biopsy to one of
the arteries near my ear lobe because they think it might be
inflammmed and if so could lead to blindness. Since the fever broke
on tuesday and the results of the biopsy will not be till friday,
given to the fact that there is a major snowstorm here today the
doctors allowed me to go home last night. I am on steriods and other
meds and right now I am lying on my sofa typing this from my laptop
to see what is going on in here

I have no strength to do anything but veg but I wanted to at least
see how many security updates there are so hopefully by this weekend
when I get some strength back I can go on my own machines and do the
updates.

then prepare my clients.
robin
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Sorry to hear about your plight. Hope it works out well.

I didn't notice any Office 2007 updates, tho my machine is XP/SP3
Home.

Gene
 
Very sorry to hear about this - hope you get sorted out very quickly Robin.
Best,
Alan D


robinb said:
I have not asked because since last wednesday I have been in the hospital.
I have had a fever, severe pain in my head and ear on the right side. This
started last friday and was getting worse so wed I was hospitilazed. I had
a surgical procedure and biopsy to one of the arteries near my ear lobe
because they think it might be inflammmed and if so could lead to
blindness. Since the fever broke on tuesday and the results of the biopsy
will not be till friday, given to the fact that there is a major snowstorm
here today the doctors allowed me to go home last night. I am on steriods
and other meds and right now I am lying on my sofa typing this from my
laptop to see what is going on in here

I have no strength to do anything but veg but I wanted to at least see how
many security updates there are so hopefully by this weekend when I get
some strength back I can go on my own machines and do the updates.

then prepare my clients.
robin
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There is a large collection--10 or so on many machines, but small.

Ignore the computers, get some chicken soup or whatever, and take care of
yourself--the updates will go in automatically.


robinb said:
I have not asked because since last wednesday I have been in the hospital.
I have had a fever, severe pain in my head and ear on the right side.
This started last friday and was getting worse so wed I was hospitilazed.
I had a surgical procedure and biopsy to one of the arteries near my ear
lobe because they think it might be inflammmed and if so could lead to
blindness. Since the fever broke on tuesday and the results of the biopsy
will not be till friday, given to the fact that there is a major snowstorm
here today the doctors allowed me to go home last night. I am on steriods
and other meds and right now I am lying on my sofa typing this from my
laptop to see what is going on in here

I have no strength to do anything but veg but I wanted to at least see how
many security updates there are so hopefully by this weekend when I get
some strength back I can go on my own machines and do the updates.

then prepare my clients.
robin
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Thanks - The Microsoft blog entry has now been revised.

At least one cause for this issue appears to be malware--a rootkit on these
machines that isn't visible to the owners nor their antivirus apps.

There may be other causes--modified versions of atapi.sys seem to be the
issue.
 
I should say more:

Microsoft PSS is very interested in getting as much information as possible,
particularly memory dumps from the crash, from these systems. anyone
experiencing this problem should call Microsoft's 1-866-pcsafety line.
 
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