Windows update KB3004394 issues

Anonymous
2014-12-09T21:18:09+00:00

Windows update KB3004394  causes the following issues on my Windows 7 x64 Ultimate system:

All MMC functions (Event Viewer, etc.) now require Administrator action, although in an Administrator account.

Windows Defender service will not start

The Windows Defender Service Terminated with the following error

%%-2147023113

Removing it  returns the system to normal.

Anyone else experience this?

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-12-10T18:53:21+00:00

    All I can say is mine is optional here.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-12-10T18:51:49+00:00

    Same problem for me. W7SP1 Pro x64 (US English). Windows Defender will not start ("stub received bad data"), Windows Update no longer works (error code 0x800706F7), Internet Explorer 11 will not install (log file says "failed to install local package"), Microsoft Security Essentials will not complete installation.

    Removed KB3004394 and all seems to be back to normal.

    A colleague's PC running W7SP1 Pro x86 (Brazilian Portuguese) will not install Net Framework 4.5.2 from Windows Update after KB3004394, so maybe the same problem occurs with the 32-bit version of Windows 7. But I do not have access to his computer to check this.

    I haven't had any problems on 2 machines running Windows 8.1 Pro x86.

    Re the Windows 8.1 patches: Windows Update at first offered to install an update to Microsoft Silverlight, but now it has disappeared (I did not have WU configured to automatically install updates, so the Silverlight update has not been installed). I've also read a comment on na Austrian site about this update causing problems navigating many sites that use Silverlight.

    So it seems that Microsoft has released two buggy patches...

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-12-10T18:46:10+00:00

    Susan,

    On my PC it is showing as important, not optional

    Despite having removed and re-installed this update twice (i.e. now on my 3rd installation), my PC remains unafflicted by any of the symptoms reported in this thread.

    Just a thought - maybe I am unaffected because I always manually install all Microsoft Updates as the administrator? (Leastways all those that I choose to take)

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-12-10T18:43:18+00:00

    I have noticed that virtual machines built through Oracle's VMBox fail to start if Windows Update KB3004394 is installed.  After I uninstalled the update the virtual machine issues we resolved.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-12-10T18:27:37+00:00

    It's how you set your updates.  If you have "show me optional updates in the same manner as important" they show up on the main screen.  If you untick that box, they are on the second tab.

    For me here, they are optional as I have the box unticked.

    But bottom line uninstall that update everyone and hang loose.

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