December Microsoft Security Updates

Has anyone else out there had problems with the latest updates.

There are 2 which gave me errors:-

1. KB941568 - after installation I got a "stop error" (device driver
problem!) every time I logged on.
2. KB942615 - gave me a problem with Norton Personal Firewall. After
installation, whenever I tried to run IE, Norton asked if I wanted to allow
IE to log onto broadband. However, it wouldn't accept "allow to always log
on" and just kept repeating the question without letting IE use the
connection!

I managed to use "Go Back" to my original settings and only installed the
updates that didn't give me issues.

We are also having a similar problem and I'm trying to identify the cause.

We are getting reports the past few weeks of users logging on in the morning
and getting Stop errors and a BSOD or the machine just restarts.

Once they restart and log in all is fine.

These are fully patched XP SP2 machines with the December crop of MS
updates.

We use the Novell 4.9 SP2 client, Trend Micro OfficeScan 8 and a few other
common apps.

It's not isolated to any particular hardware or software image.

Known:
- They don't all have the problem (10% is a guestimate for now)
- They don't get it every day
- The machine is on all night at a login prompt (a fresh boot doesn't get
it).

There is nothing in the event logs and the error is a generic stop error
0xC000021A.

I've removed the December updates on some machines and will see if the
problem persists.

Just fishing for clues at this point.

Tom
"Bennegar" <Bennegar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2B610241-6149-4FA8-9E61-A2A66754BE9B@microsoft.com...
> Has anyone else out there had problems with the latest updates.
>
> There are 2 which gave me errors:-
>
> 1. KB941568 - after installation I got a "stop error" (device driver
> problem!) every time I logged on.
> 2. KB942615 - gave me a problem with Norton Personal Firewall. After
> installation, whenever I tried to run IE, Norton asked if I wanted to
> allow
> IE to log onto broadband. However, it wouldn't accept "allow to always log
> on" and just kept repeating the question without letting IE use the
> connection!
>
> I managed to use "Go Back" to my original settings and only installed the
> updates that didn't give me issues.