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February Windows Updates leads to Blue screen of Death

Stranger — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:25:24 +0000

February’s Patch Tuesday seems to be having some glitch in one of the 13 updates causing the operating system to push Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) with either one of the Page Faults.

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
Technical Information:
STOP: 0×00000050 (0×80097004, 0×00000001, 0×80515103, 0×00000000)

STOP: 0x0000007B (0xB84C3524, 0xC0000034, 0×00000000, 0×00000000)

STOP: 0x0000007E (0xC0000034, 0xB84C3524, 0×00000000, 0×00000000)

STOP: 0x0000007F (0xC000001D, 0×00000000, 0×80537008, 0xBA4CB0B4)

It seems that windows unable to boot into any Windows Advanced boot modes. Since Microsoft Support Team extensively working on this issue, the removal of KB977165 Hot-Fix update via Recovery Console seems to have fixed the problem.

Follow the below steps to remove KB977165 via Recovery Console:

Step 1: Boot into Windows Recovery Console using the CD. If you don’t get the Console, probably you have to follow this Microsoft KB307654.

Step 2: In the Repair screen execute the following commands one by one and hit Enter

CHDIR $NtUninstallKB977165$\spuninst

BATCH spuninst.txt

systemroot

If the above KB977165 removal doesn’t work then you have to repeat step 2 to uninstall the following KB’s in the same way you did above. You have to change the KB Article Number and rest of the commands are same.

KB978262 | KB978262 | KB971468 | KB978037 | KB975713 | KB978251 | KB978706

KB975560 | KB977914

Finally type the command ‘exit’ to come out of the Recovery Console and let the computer restart to come up with a good start. Hope it should work out as of now till the experts fix up things from their end.

Blue Screen after Windows XP Update – Microsoft Answers

Microsoft security updates for February 2010

Spam Emails offering KB910721 Outlook Updates

Windows Update will be upgrading itself in August 2009

Sheiky — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:45:26 +0000

In August 2009, Microsoft will be releasing an upgrade to windows update infrastructure. This refresh will have an impact on both Microsoft update and Windows update services. This upgrade will not be limited to the infrastructure itself but will also affect the client-side code of windows update and automatic updates.

Microsoft said that it will start the infrastructure update in late August and will take 2 months to complete it. Services updates and Windows core code updates are to be updated time to time to improve the service quality and reliability. As per MU Product Team Blog, you will not experience any settings changes or the look and feel of Automatic Updates but you will see the improvement in user interface, more visible and detailed description of updates.

The MU team further stated that the Windows Update or Automatic Updates client Software must be updated for enabling the software to successfully check for the updates. If WU or AU is enabled then the infrastructure update will be downloaded and installed automatically.

Caution: Please make sure you keep your windows up-to-date by enabling Automatic Update Feature. Always install the latest updates to enhance your computer’s security and performance.

Spam Emails offering KB910721 Outlook Updates

Sheiky — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:01:30 +0000

Beware of Spam Emails which arrives in your inbox bannering itself as an Critical Update for Microsoft Outlook which offers KB910721 executable file BUT ACTUALLY ITS NOT. We can be easily spoofed by that website design as it will be somewhat similar to the Original Microsoft Web Layout.

These Spam Emails will be seen as official looking one (screenshot below) and it will arrive to your Inbox using one of these Subject Lines:

Critical Update for Microsoft Outlook
Install Critical Update for Microsoft Outlook
Install Update for Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook Critical Update
Microsoft Outlook Update
Update for Microsoft Outlook

Spam Email Campaign for Outlook Updates

which in turn will redirect you to a website(screenshot below) to download the Trojan file.

Spam Email redirects to Malicious website

This Phishing websites are coming from more than 70 different domain names including:

update.microsoft.com.11hilf.com update.microsoft.com.11hilf.net update.microsoft.com.1llijk.com update.microsoft.com.1llijk.net update.microsoft.com.hfhilf.com

Out of 41 Antivirus scans 14 were detected the file from that website as malicious as per the report by Virus Total. This email campaign ties to the top notch password stealing malware in the world called as “ZBOT” aka “Zeus Botnet”.

So if you use any Antivirus or Internet Security Suite with up-to-date virus and spyware definitions, when you are visiting the phishing or malicious websites you will see the screen similar to the one below.

Antivirus protects blocks the malicious website

You may ask “How do I know it didn’t come from Microsoft?”. Well two reasons here:

First Microsoft never sends out email attachments directly to your Email.

Second when you look deep in to this malicious website name as update.microsoft.com.1llijk.com you can see 1llijk.com is the main phishing website, probably they have created update.microsoft.com as a sub domain or else created a folder in that name in their web server. So its obvious that we will note only the first few words in the address bar and we believe that its from trusted website.

So henceforth watch out for the entire domain name and if you found anything suspicious DO NOT go forward.

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