[Infowarrior] - More on...MS update and PC crashes

[Richard Forno]

[ Y'know, if anyone else launched this kind of DoS attack on such a
widespread basis, they might be prosecuted.  (Prediction: the sheeple will
grumble, but continue to use M$ products just like they did the last N times
they were abused by their own OS vendor.) ---************* ]

More gnashing of teeth after Microsoft update brings PCs to a standstill
Resource-hogging search app sprung on reluctant admins
By Dan Goodin → More by this author
Published Thursday 25th October 2007 01:04 GMT

Updated This story was updated on Thursday 25th October 2007 23:21 to add
comment from Microsoft.

Something seems to have gone horribly wrong in an untold number of IT
departments on Wednesday after Microsoft installed a resource-hogging search
application on machines company-wide, even though administrators had
configured systems not to use the program.

"The admins at my place were in a flap this morning because Windows Desktop
Search 3.01 had suddenly started installing itself on desktops throughout
the company," a Reg reader by the name of Rob informs us. "The trouble is
that once installed, the indexer kicks in and slows the machines down."

The blogosphere is buzzing with similar reports, as evidenced by postings
here, here and here.

"I'm slighly pissed of [sic] at M$ right now," an admin in charge of 3,000
PCs wrote in a comment to the first aforementioned link. "All the clients
have slowed to a crawl, and the file servers are having problems with the
load."

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http://www.theregister.com/2007/10/25/windows_update_snafu/