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posted by janrinok on Tuesday April 29 2014, @09:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-supported-probably-means-not-tested dept.

Apparently a bug in a Microsoft Security Essentials update caused XP computers to bluescreen. After rebooting once updates were installed the XP machines would bluescreen with "MsMpEng.exe application error".

Microsoft has fixed the error by releasing a definitions update for Security Essentials. From the article:

Many point-of-sale systems, which some businesses are protecting using Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) as a way to meet the antivirus requirement of the Payment Card Industry PCI), still use Windows XP or related operating systems, including Windows XP Professional for Embedded Systems and Windows Embedded POSReady 2009. Those systems were affected by the update as well, according to one New England value-added reseller with more than 500 clients in the hospitality industry.

While Microsoft corrected the issue within days, the bug crashed at least hundreds of machines. For the New England firm, the issue affected more than 250 machines at 50 customers who relied on the systems, a consultant at the company said on condition of anonymity. "This affected about one half of our customers running Windows XP," he told eWEEK. "This brought their business to a 100 percent standstill until we could resolve the situation. In a pinch, the only solution we could determine was to uninstall MS Essentials to get them running their business again."

While uninstalling Microsoft Security Essentials worked around the issue, it also caused an additional problem: Even though Microsoft later fixed the update, MSE could not be reinstalled on Windows XP computers because the systems are no longer supported by Microsoft, the source said.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Thursday May 01 2014, @08:13AM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Thursday May 01 2014, @08:13AM (#38406) Journal

    Which part of "AC trolls please DIAF" did you not understand? I don't give a rat's as WHAT your problems are, the second you start writing "Windoze" and "M$" I know you are a retarded FOSSie who spend their time jerking off to a Bash prompt.

    But if you didn't have cliches and your pathetic attempts at insults why then you might have to have an independent thought [wired.com] and realize what everybody knows [lockergnome.com] that even when MSFT put out a universally reviled OS you STILL got curb stomped [practical-tech.com], does that give you ANY clues? or all they all brainwashed by those black choppers that have been following you? Hell when the Chinese were given the choice of your "free OS" or pirating Windows they chose the latter [neowin.net] even if it meant staying on XP and using IE fricking 6, LOL! Does that ring ANY bells? A smart person would say "what are we doing wrong the other guy is doing right?" but a FOSSie who is just like a Moonie in that they blindly follow, instead says "Its all a conspiracy! They are all shills keeping the masses from true salvation!" and then you wonder why we all laugh at you [penny-arcade.com] because you DON'T Listen, you DON'T learn, and Torvalds could take a big steaming dump and hand it to you and you'd thank him for his generous gift.

    --
    ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 03 2014, @08:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 03 2014, @08:17AM (#39189)

    the second you start writing "Windoze"
    The few times that I write "windows", I'm talking about multiple frames on my screen.
    I don't advertise for a company that can't even come up with a unique name.
    Someone doing a web search will not find anything in what I write that will be useful concerning how to further/better use what I consider an inferior OS.
    For folks who are looking to reinforce their own reasons to switch away, what I write may be useful; they will likely use my spelling in their search.
    It's perfectly logical.

    and "M$"
    The moment that I see M$ do something that is clearly austerity WRT their end users, I will stop that.
    After 4 decades of practices, I won't be holding my breath waiting for the bloodsuckers to go that route.
    The way I render their name (MSFT, MICROS~1, M$) indicates whether I'm talking about their declining stock price, their 4th-rate technology, or their mercenary business model.
    Again, perfectly logical.

    ...and, man, I really hate the way the idiots at Wired can't keep a goddamned URL valid for 2 fucking weeks in a row.
    After the fork, LibreOffice is doing great and (relicensed) OOo is only alive due to its name and inertia (Hmmm. That sounds familiar)--all the devs bolted, so that dude's point about non-GPL licenses has at least 1 giant data point against it.)

    curb stomped
    You know and I know that when people go to the high street, they buy what they find there.
    Gutless whitebox builders still stuck in 1989, combined with M$ volume discounts tilt the table before Joe Consumer even arrives.
    If Joe was given an a la carte list, that $0 next to Linux would look really good to him.
    ...and so on. [nilkanth.com]
    Now, vendors like you would take it in the slats, not being able to sell extra junk like "anti-virus".

    Walmart sold 10,000 Linux boxes in 48 hours in 2007. [archive.org]
    People walked right past the identical hardware with Windoze installed.
    The only reason they didn't sell MORE Linux boxes is that they ran slam out.
    ...and when the Linux boxes were gone, the customers did NOT start scooping up the Windoze boxes.

    What happened after that? Nobody not inside that loop knows for sure.
    (Likely: M$ lawyers; a previous exclusivity agreement with M$; NDAs.)

    Oh, and most folks these days want small and cheap.
    Among handsets, the last numbers I saw said 83 percent of folks bought something with a GPL core--with that share still growing; M$'s junk? Under 4 percent and falling.
    (When given an actual choice, very few want the brand with a reputation for infections, blue screens, and reboots.)

    20 percent of laptops currently being sold are ChromeBooks and that number continues to grow.
    For over a year, a ChromeBook has been at the top of Amazon's best sellers list.
    M$ loses money on every Surface it sells. (Redmond's propaganda machine is very expensive.)

    In its old stronghold (English-speaking users, traditionally at the mercy of their whitebox builders), September 2013 saw Windoze reach minority status (49 percent) [wikimedia.org] and it continues its slide (44 percent). [wikimedia.org]
    Unlike the dark past of essentially monoculture, the future is diverse.
    (That's one of the most-visited sites on the Web.
    Don't bother to point to some site with tiny sample rates and cooked numbers.)

    the Chinese were given the choice
    Lock-in is a bitch. Ask any nicotine addict.
    Meanwhile, the Brazilian public school system has 500,000 Linux desktop seats.
    Panasonic, Inc. has 300,000 Linux desktop seats.
    The French Gendarmerie Nationale has 85,000 Ubuntu seats.
    Extremadura switched 80,000 boxes to Linux in one weekend.
    After a BSA raid in 2000, Ernie Ball, Inc. got rid of all EULAware in under 1 year.
    Munich is over 95 percent M$-free and they are still working on that.
    Last century, Dave Richards had the entire administration of the City of Largo, FL running Linux with the exception of a few legacy apps on 1 Windoze server.

    Desktop Windoze is an unnecessary crutch. Those who aren't weak have broken free.

    ...and the Chinese want to continue to use something built by a company that VOLUNTARILY handed over to NSA the keys to all its back doors??
    Didn't they learn anything from Stuxnet? The phrase "gross stupidity" comes to mind.
    We can revisit this topic after it has been demonstrated that NSA cyberwarfare has completely pwned their asses.

    -- gewg_