Lates 'security updates' from Microsoft

At Windows Update. I downloaded all 4 or 5 of them this evening and one of
the downloads has totally changed all my fonts, it has made everything in
bold, I don't know what the heck is going on. I did a system restore back
to yesterday and all is fine now, except I'm getting the pop up telling me I
have new updates to download and install Has anyone downloaded these yet
and had their computer screwed up? I assume they were just released today
because this evening is when I got the pop up alert for it.

If anyone can shed some light, please do

Thanks.

 

Installed all of them last night (Windows XP) and had no problem.

 

Go to www.techtv.com/screensavers
and search for the article on disabling
Messaging so that you don't get those
stupid notifications. If MS put those
security holes all over their OS in
the first place what makes you think
they can patch 'em reliably? The
updates prolly have bigger bugs
than the original code.

Don't use IE. Use a good browser
like one of the Mozilla based ones.
Run a firewall. Forget the updates
unless you're installing a whole
service pack. If your system gets
hosed then you're stuck doing a
restore. What good is that?

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

 

"Sseaott" <SseaottATcomcastDOTnet> wrote in message
... . AND SCARED ME.

Hello "Sseaott" !!
I use Manual Updates,
I log on to Microsoft site and where my system is scanned telling
me
what Updates are available, then I have a choice on what to
install.
I pick only "Security" & "Critical" Updates.
To-night I also installed 5 Updates, so far so good.
I became little concerned when I read the above Post.

I use Windows XP Home, OE 6, & IE 6.
I have installed:
Security: OE 6 ,svce. Pack 1 (KB837009)
Critical : IE 6 ,svce. Pack 1 (KB831167)
Security: Windows XP, (KB837001)
" " " " " ", (KB828741)
" " " " " ", (KB835732)

Are the above Updates similar to the ones You have installed??
Do You use same OP. ?? [email protected]

 

Installed all updates yesterday, on 2 computers - XP Home and XP Pro, and
no problem.

 

Once the download, install, and restart were done, no problems.

"Sseaott" <SseaottATcomcastDOTnet> wrote in message
: At Windows Update. I downloaded all 4 or 5 of them this evening and
one of
: the downloads has totally changed all my fonts, it has made everything
in
: bold, I don't know what the heck is going on. I did a system restore
back
: to yesterday and all is fine now, except I'm getting the pop up
telling me I
: have new updates to download and install Has anyone downloaded
these yet
: and had their computer screwed up? I assume they were just released
today
: because this evening is when I got the pop up alert for it.
:
: If anyone can shed some light, please do
:
: Thanks.
:
:

 

Thanks for the replies everyone. Yes I'm running XP Home. I dont have my
computer setup to automatically download and install, it just gives me a
notify that there are new updates and asks me what I want to do, so I chose
to download them. Maybe I just had bad luck or something, I will give it a
try again later today. Better yet, I will do one by one and restart after
each time and see if I can find the download that is causing the problem, if
it occurs again.

Thanks.