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RE: After Ms patches last Wed ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Hayden)
Mon Apr 19 16:12:45 2004
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 14:13:41 -0400
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Were you able to see what process(es) were driving up CPU usage?
Reinstalling windows probably would fix it but that doesn't tell what is
hanging.
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Gifford [mailto:sgifford@suspectclass.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 1:07 PM
To: phaser-X
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: After Ms patches last Wed ...
phaser-X <px@zeroday.net> writes:
> I had a different issue after Wednesdays updates. Two win2k computers
in
> my office were rendered useless after the patch. They were fine
before,
> but as soon as the patch finished and the PC was rebooted, the CPU
usage
> was 100% and nothing could be done. I left both PC's sitting for
about 20
> minutes and the 100% CPU usage never came down. Another coworker said
he
> had the same issue with his home PC and he was eventually able to get
into
> the task manager and noticed that the system process was taking up
99-100%
> of the CPU.
>
> Anyone else experience this issue?
A consulting client of mine had the same complaint. He was only able
to fix it by re-installing Windows. You may want to mention it on
NTBugTraq, they often discuss and sort out things like this.
----ScottG.
