From: Chris Robinson 

Microsoft have released a revision of this patch now.  According to them
it's only been revised for NT4 - Win2k and XP weren't affected by the
original patch..... hmmm:

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Reason for Revision:
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Subsequent to the release of this bulletin it was determined that the patch
for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 machines introduced an error that could, under
certain configurations, cause NT 4.0 to fail. Microsoft has investigated
this issue and is releasing an updated patch for Windows NT 4.0. The
bulletin has been updated to include the new download links for the NT 4.0
patch. Customers who have installed the patch on Microsoft Windows 2000 and
Windows XP are unaffected by this error.
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Chris.

Mike '/m' wrote:

> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7610
>
> =====
> RANDOM CRASHES AND SAFE or reliable but vulnerable, the choice was yours if
> you were running Windows NT4 up until a few hours ago. Microsoft has just
> withdrawn a patch for the ageing but widespread operating system after
> users discovered the fix caused more trouble than it was worth. The patch
> was designed to kill a security vulnerability on Windows NT4, 2000 and XP.
> It was possible for a malicious user to gain privileges on a machine they
> had logged into by using inter-process communications, in particular
> WM_TIMER. However, the patch proved to be a dangerous thing to install on
> NT4. ...
> =====
>
> Yet another reason not to allow Microsoft unfettered access to my PC, per
> the more recent EULAs.
>
>  /m

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