Screwed If You Do, Screwed If You Don’t - Windows Update Causes Crashes (KB891711)
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A recent security update to Microsoft Windows, MS05-002 KB891711, is causing crashes for a lot of Windows 98 and Windows ME users, leading to issues with IE, blue screens of death and even, some are reporting, a black screen of death.
The MS05-002 KB891711 security patch, released in January, was supposed to address a Windows vulnerability with “Cursor and Icon Format Handling” which could, according to Microsoft, allow remoted code execution.
But almost as soon as the KB891711 patch was disseminated, people started reporting issues with their Windows 98 and Windows ME systems resulting from the patch. Said one user, posting in a public forum, “I just had to remove it from a customer’s machine as it was originally causing it to Blue Screen with an fatal exception.”
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