{"id":10169,"date":"2009-12-02T10:42:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T10:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10169"},"modified":"2009-12-02T10:42:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T10:42:55","slug":"microsoft-responds-to-black-screen-of-death-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10169","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Responds to Black Screen of Death Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was widely reported<\/a> that a UK company was claiming that one of last weeks security updates by Microsoft was causing a \u201cblack screen of death\u201d where Explorer would show nothing when you logged in.  Microsoft responded<\/a> overnight:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile these reports weren\u2019t brought to us directly, from our research into them, it appears they\u2019re saying that our security updates are making permission changes in the registry to the value for the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogonShell  key. <\/em><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve conducted a comprehensive review of the November Security Updates, the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, and the non-security updates we released through Windows Update in November. That investigation has shown that none of these updates make any changes to the permissions in the registry. Thus, we don\u2019t believe the updates are related to the \u201cblack screen\u201d behavior described in these reports. <\/em><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve also checked with our worldwide Customer Service and Support organization, and they\u2019ve told us they\u2019re not seeing \u201cblack screen\u201d behavior as a broad customer issue. Because these reports were not brought to us directly, it\u2019s impossible to know conclusively what might be causing a \u201cblack screen\u201d in those limited instances where customers have seen it\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

There you have it.  Prevx didn\u2019t do the responsible thing, i.e. contact Microsoft directly, and instead decided to generate some publicity for themselves.  Their claims have been refuted so this leads me to wonder: are these developers more of the same who don\u2019t comply with documented standards and just write rubbish code and to hell with their customers?  I don\u2019t know them, never dealt with them and certainly never heard of them before yesterday.  You decide \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: Windows Updates<\/a>,Security<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was widely reported that a UK company was claiming that one of last weeks security updates by Microsoft was causing a \u201cblack screen of death\u201d where Explorer would show nothing when you logged in.  Microsoft responded overnight: \u201cWhile these reports weren\u2019t brought to us directly, from our research into them, it appears they\u2019re saying … Continue reading “Microsoft Responds to Black Screen of Death Claims”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[190,121],"class_list":["post-10169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-security","tag-windows-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}