steven36 Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Microsoft on KB 3004394 patch: Uninstall it ... pretty please It's official: If you installed KB 3004394, you need to uninstall the patch manuallyAs I mentioned earlier this morning, Microsoft has pulled the botched patch KB 3004394. That's the Windows Root Cert patch causing endless problems -- Windows Defender wouldn't start, installing KB 3004394 blocked installing other Windows Updates, UAC prompts appeared in the weirdest places, MSE wouldn't install, VirtualBox stopped working, and on and on. In the past hour, Microsoft acknowledged the problem and told us what to do about it. Microsoft engineer and forum moderator Pinaki Mohanty, writing on the Microsoft Answers forum, announced that you should uninstall KB 3004394, if you were unfortunate enough to get it. Here's the official advice: We encourage Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 customers who are impacted, to uninstall the updates/KB3004394. Once ready, we will re-release the updates.Those of you who had Automatic Update turned on last Tuesday can now take the "Kick Me" sign off your back.No doubt about it: Microsoft has the all-time best Windows malware delivery system.Source: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2858738/microsoft-windows/microsoft-recommends-that-you-uninstall-botched-patch-kb-3004394.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humble3d Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I guess it's no accident that MSFT continues to make big mistakes at the expense of consumers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oliverjia Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 LOLfxxking MS programmers, shame on you.This is the price these stupid morons at Redmond changed the update scheme to implement stupid features instead of only patch security vulnerabilities. I don't understand why these ppl at MS are so stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oliverjia Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 No kidding. These stupid morons released flawed patches every time in teh past few months.I guess it's no accident that MSFT continues to make big mistakes at the expense of consumers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R3dMan Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 That patch affect Windows 8.1 too ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skunk1966 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Microsoft came up with an update to automatically delete the updatehttps://support.microsoft.com/kb/3024777 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I dunno .. I guess you have to be actually doing something, to make a mistake .... :whistle: LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
212eta Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 M$... :shit: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voman Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I had KB 3004394 installed on my W7 64bits and everything was just fine including virtualbox. I patched again with KB 3024777 and my onedrive stopped working complaining about no internet connection. :wtf: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
provision Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 KB3004394 installed Windows 8.1 Pro x64 and everything is fine so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted December 12, 2014 Author Share Posted December 12, 2014 KB3004394 installed Windows 8.1 Pro x64 and everything is fine so far.The update didn't effect windows 8.1 , It only was bad in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 , I removed it from my moms Windows 7 laptop last night . windows 8.1 we had our turn having to removing bad updates just a few months ago . Its not 1st time this year they got updates wrong . :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefa Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 KB3004394 installed Windows 8.1 Pro x64 and everything is fine so far.The update didn't effect windows 8.1 , It only was bad in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 , I removed it from my moms Windows 7 laptop last night . windows 8.1 we had our turn having to removing bad updates just a few months ago . Its not 1st time this year they got updates wrong . :s//www.nsaneforums.com/topic/235530-microsoft-recalls-patch-tuesday-exchange-update/ Correct :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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