microsoft security updates

[Eli]

Hi

 

Any encountered issues with the attached Microsoft security updates ? thanks

[Nergal]

Are these this months 14 releases? If so I've had no issues on my 25 XP machines.

[Eli]

Are these this months 14 releases? If so I've had no issues on my 25 XP machines.

Thanks for your reply. These are the last realeases.

[DennisD]

I had a power cut yesterday halfway through the downloading, so I've had to do it manually today, and I had what appeared to be an issue for the first time ever.

 

Immediately after the updates were installed, a new to me process, in fact two versions of it, appeared in Task Manager and one of them maxed out my CPU. I let it go for a half minute or so, and with no sign of stopping, and not knowing what it was, I killed it with task manger.

 

As it turns out, it's an MS process explained at this link ...

 

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/davidnotario/archive/2005/04/27/412838.aspx

 

... and it's been around for a while apparently, but that's the first time I've been aware of it. And although I killed it, I'm still here, so no harm done.

[Eli]

I had a power cut yesterday halfway through the downloading, so I've had to do it manually today, and I had what appeared to be an issue for the first time ever.

 

Immediately after the updates were installed, a new to me process, in fact two versions of it, appeared in Task Manager and one of them maxed out my CPU. I let it go for a half minute or so, and with no sign of stopping, and not knowing what it was, I killed it with task manger.

 

As it turns out, it's an MS process explained at this link ...

 

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/davidnotario/archive/2005/04/27/412838.aspx

 

... and it's been around for a while apparently, but that's the first time I've been aware of it. And although I killed it, I'm still here, so no harm done.

Thanks for the info Dennis.

[MikeW]

No problems with my XP machines

[Andavari]

Immediately after the updates were installed, a new to me process, in fact two versions of it

 

It's part of Microsoft.NET, and when updating .NET with a service pack or security update it will run afterwords. I just set it's service ".NET Runtime Optimization Service" to Manual when I notice it running, then reboot. I think it "may" actually do all that automatically itself by setting itself to the Manual startup type after awhile if my memory is serving me correctly

[Eli]

I asked this question about the security updates and guess what ? I finally made the update and my machine went into a deep freeze.... lucky me I made a system restore point + Erunt backup prior to updating...

It is beginning to look like these updates bring more trouble to my machine than the remote possibility of a security breach,considering the fact that I`m always running sandboxed.