Windows 7 patch blunder
One effect could be that Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows 7 would display a message claiming its license was invalid, Microsoft said. That would kill protection offered by Kaspersky, making the situation more serious than just a comical screw-up.
And Microsoft will now have to work on a fresh patch for the relevant flaw, which could still be exploited by hackers.
Microsoft said the problem lay in how the update interacted with third-party gear.
“We’ve determined that the update, when paired with certain third-party software, can cause system errors. As a precaution, we stopped pushing 2823324 as an update when we began investigating the error reports and have since removed it from the download centre,” the Microsoft Security Response Center wrote in a blog post.
“Contrary to some reports, the system errors do not result in any data loss nor affect all Windows customers.”
Other fixes from this week’s Patch Tuesday, including a critical one affecting all supported versions of Internet Explorer, are still available and users have been advised to download them.
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