Latest XP updates?

[drone]

Is this the .ANI exploit update? I had heard that the fix caused some problems, I'm holding off until they get a better patch.

[Xiahou]

Anyone ever have Automatic updates go bad and cause svchost.exe crashes?

I'd read some about it before, but never experienced it until yesterday. My company-issued laptop is the only PC I have with auto updates enabled and yesterday it started getting errors about svchost.exe crashing. My knee-jerk reaction was, 'uh-oh, virus', especially since I had just got back from a road-trip (damn hotel wireless APs). But, I updated my AV, did a full scan and did a Trend Housecall full scan- all came up empty. After some googling, I just turned off auto updates and restarted- no more errors.

I later found and applied a MS hotfix I found in their knowledgebase that sounded like it may fix the issue, but I decided to leave auto updates off anyhow.

[Rilder]

Anyone ever have Automatic updates go bad and cause svchost.exe crashes?

I'd read some about it before, but never experienced it until yesterday. My company-issued laptop is the only PC I have with auto updates enabled and yesterday it started getting errors about svchost.exe crashing. My knee-jerk reaction was, 'uh-oh, virus', especially since I had just got back from a road-trip (damn hotel wireless APs). But, I updated my AV, did a full scan and did a Trend Housecall full scan- all came up empty. After some googling, I just turned off auto updates and restarted- no more errors.

I later found and applied a MS hotfix I found in their knowledgebase that sounded like it may fix the issue, but I decided to leave auto updates off anyhow.

Hmm thats weird I've never had any problems.

[hoom]

Is this the .ANI exploit update?

Apparently so, I didn't really pay too much attention to what it was that I updated.

This thing freaked the hell out of me, my PC is stable & well protected, I was like "WTH, virus?! On MY PC "
Maybe something just failed to load first time I thought, so reboot.
Nope.
So is it actually breaking the internet, can I google the error?
Yes internet works but just a bunch of stuff about how yes, rthdcpl.exe is the Realtek control panel & some worms hijack it!
Then tried the exact error message & found the MS KB article, "Phew, not my booboo, ooh others are gonna get that"
The .org was 2nd stop with URL in clipbook.

[Stig]

Great, thanks for this thread. I had to same, only in my Dutch version it looked like User32.dll has stopped working, so I googled that and it said:
if this doesn't work anymore your computer doesn't work anymore.

So I restored the last settings. But now I should be able to fix it