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Re: Problem with MS Updates?
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 06:35:12 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In the spirit of "eat your own dog food" and "FYI self-adherence", I am happy to report that I managed to successfully install all of today's MS security updates without incident after lowering my ZoneAlarm firewall to "Medium" as opposed to "High". What I am unhappy about is that I had to set it to "Medium". I await a fix from CheckPoint/ZoneAlarm. Just an FYI. Thanks, - - ferg - -- "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote: It has been brought to my attention that this is an apparent conflict between ZoneAlarm and MS update KB951748: http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=cfg&message.id=52 785 Apparently, resetting Internet Zone Security from High to Medium is a workaround: http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=cfg&message.id=52 733 FYI, - - ferg - -- "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote: Heads-up: I just had to System Restore a few machines (including my laptop) after updating with today's monthly Microsoft security patches. All systems were XP SP2 -- and I have also expressly not selected the SP3 upgrade. After rebooting, the Windows TCP/IP API seems to become completely broken, e.g. network applications (browser, NTP client, etc.) cannot reach their desired destinations (error: host not found), however, when you open a DOS Shell, you can successfully resolve DNS queries, ping target hosts, traceroute, etc. Very bizarre and very frustrating. I spent ~2 hours futzing with this issue. I have seen no mention of this elsewhere yet, but basically if you do not System Restore, you're functionally dead in the water. I plan to make some inquires elsewhere, but for now, I would highly recommend waiting to apply the monthly Microsoft Black Tuesday updates until things are more clear. Has anyone else run into any problems? FYI, - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFIdFwPq1pz9mNUZTMRAit9AKDpDggq0a40QsY9BXoqIUwQbAnz/ACfQpzV H2bsKkS8sPKKCDR+fD+SQl8= =tMqF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Problem with MS Updates? Paul Ferguson (Jul 08)
- Re: Problem with MS Updates? Richard M. Smith (Jul 08)
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- Re: Problem with MS Updates? Paul Ferguson (Jul 08)
- Re: Problem with MS Updates? Richard M. Smith (Jul 08)
- Re: Problem with MS Updates? David Boswell (Jul 08)
- Re: Problem with MS Updates? John Payne (Jul 08)
- Re: Problem with MS Updates? David Boswell (Jul 09)
- Re: Problem with MS Updates? coderman (Jul 08)
- Re: Problem with MS Updates? Paul Ferguson (Jul 08)