bugtraq - Re: After Ms patches last Wed ...

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Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 03:28:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: "T.H. Haymore" <bonk@...chat.chatsystems.com>
To: <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: After Ms patches last Wed ...

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, phaser-X wrote:

> I had a different issue after Wednesdays updates.  Two win2k computers in
> my office were rendered useless after the patch.  They were fine before,
> but as soon as the patch finished and the PC was rebooted, the CPU usage
> was 100% and nothing could be done.  I left both PC's sitting for about 20
> minutes and the 100% CPU usage never came down.  Another coworker said he
> had the same issue with his home PC and he was eventually able to get into
> the task manager and noticed that the system process was taking up 99-100%
> of the CPU.

I have run into the same thing with 2K workstations as well as 2K server.
On a side note, an XP 'goof off' box I use will no longer connect to the
online card games or anything else.  (Thank goodness for BSD).

>
> Anyone else experience this issue?
>
> -pX

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