Microsoft releases KB 3092627 to fix bad Windows patch MS15-084/KB 3076895

From InfoWorld: There has been a lot of confusion surrounding the Aug. 11 security patch MS15-04/KB 3076895, which broke several products from Symantec, IBM -- even Microsoft itself. It took more than two weeks for Microsoft to recognize that the Patch Tuesday offering had conflicts with the company's own software, during which time Microsoft tech support continued to deny there were any problems, even when given thorough descriptions of the symptoms and an internal knowledge base link.

A hotfix, KB 3090303, was finally released Aug. 31, that seems to take care of the problem, but you had to know you had the problem, find the solution, then manually install the patch. Now Microsoft has made available KB 3092627, which is a re-release of the hotfix, this time made available through Windows Update.

According to its KB article:

"If update 3090303 is installed, customers already have the fix for the issue. Therefore, they don't have to install update 3092627. Update 3092627 is a broader GDR release of the fix in update 3090303."

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