From: "Glenn Meadows" 

I've had 4 or 5 so far fail this way.

I downloaded a patch today, that was an update for an earlier patch that
cleared up 1 of the machines (didn't have time to address the others yet).
I'll post the KB/Patch file name tomorrow when I get back to the office.

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Glenn M.
"Robert Comer"  wrote in
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> >The WSUS team has been dealing for some time with a problem they call
>>the 'svchost/msi issue.' One of the problems here is that during
>>automatic patch updates on a Windows XP machine, CPU usage goes into
>>overdrive. "Of course, the computer is virtually
unusable" when that
>>happens, someone using the name Foxy-Perth wrote on the Windows Update
>>support forum.
>
> It's more than just WSUS, I've had 3 PC's have this problem with
> normal Windows update, one last month's patch cycle and 2 this month.
>
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> Bob Comer
>
>
>
> On Mon, 14 May 2007 21:48:03 -0400, mike  wrote:
>
>>
>>http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci125477
4,00.html
>>
>>===
>>The days following a Microsoft security update are typically followed by
>>reports of deployment problems, and this month is proving to be no
>>exception. Since the software giant's May 8 patch rollout, various blogs
>>and discussion boards have been full of reports about everything from
>>DNS service failures to Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
>>malfunctions.
>>
>>At least one IT professional reported that after applying this month's
>>patches to a bunch of domain controllers, the DNS service on one of them
>>was failing repeatedly.
>>
>>"I have it set to recover, so it comes back on, but it fails again after
>>a few minutes," he said in a patch management email forum hosted by
>>Roseville, Minn.-based Shavlik Technologies.
>>
>>Meanwhile, Susan Bradley, a Microsoft MVP and IT administrator at
>>Tamiyasu, Smith, Horn and Braun Accountancy Corp. in Fresno, Calif.,
>>wrote in her MS07-027, a cumulative update for Internet Explorer.
>>
>>She said there are two issues with the patch -- Some Windows 2000
>>machines were being offered a 2004 patch, and some Vista machines were
>>getting a "navcancl" error message after patching. As a temporary
>>solution, she recommended IT administrators start Internet Explorer 7
>>using the following commands: start->run iexplore.exe -nohome -extoff;
>>then right click on the toolbar area and click the menu bar if it's
>>disabled; and then select
tools->options->advanced->security->disable
>>phishing filter.
>>
>>Even though the Internet Explorer patch is rated critical, she said IT
>>administrators should not hurry it onto their systems at the expense of
>>thorough testing.
>>
>>"Even after you patch it your browser will [still] have security issues
>>and if you have other mitigations in place, the rush should not be on to
>>be the first to install," she wrote in her blog. She said administrators
>>should remember they are "installing changed code on a system that
>>Microsoft CANNOT fully test for because they DO NOT have your system,
>>your software, your surfing habits, etc."
>>
>>Administrators are also reporting problems with WSUS following
>>Microsoft's Tuesday patch release, which addressed 19 flaws that
>>included a zero-day DNS server flaw and flaws in Microsoft Exchange,
>>Internet Explorer, Microsoft Excel, Word and Office.
>>
>>The WSUS team has been dealing for some time with a problem they call
>>the 'svchost/msi issue.' One of the problems here is that during
>>automatic patch updates on a Windows XP machine, CPU usage goes into
>>overdrive. "Of course, the computer is virtually
unusable" when that
>>happens, someone using the name Foxy-Perth wrote on the Windows Update
>>support forum.
>>
>>The problem persists even though Microsoft has tried to address it will
>>a hotfix.
>>===
>>
>> /m

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