February 13, 2018 - KB4074598 (Monthly Rollup) Windows 7

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February 13, 2018—KB4074598 (Monthly Rollup)

Applies to: Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1

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Improvements and fixes

This security update includes improvements and fixes that were a part of update KB4057400 (released January 19, 2018) and addresses the following issues:

• Addresses issue with editing input fields in some applications in Internet Explorer.
• Addresses a script-related issue that caused Internet Explorer to stop working in some cases.
• Addresses issue with launching a new page in Internet Explorer.
• Security updates to Internet Explorer, Windows Graphics, Windows Kernel, Common Log File System driver, Microsoft Windows Search component, and Windows storage and file systems.

For more information about the resolved security vulnerabilities, see the Security Update Guide.


Known issues in this update

Symptom
Because of an issue that affects some versions of antivirus software, this fix is being applied only to the computers on which the antivirus ISV have updated the ALLOW REGKEY.

Workaround
Contact your antivirus manufacturer to verify that their software is compatible and that they have set the following REGKEY on the computer:

Key="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"Subkey="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\QualityCompat"

Value Name="cadca5fe-87d3-4b96-b7fb-a231484277cc"

Type="REG_DWORD”

Data="0x00000000”

How to get this update

This update will be downloaded and installed automatically from Windows Update. To get the standalone package for this update, go to the Microsoft Update Catalog website.

File information

For a list of the files that are provided in this update, download the file information for update 4074598.

Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4074598


Direct download links for KB4074598 MSU file from Microsoft Update Catalog:

:ar: Download KB4074598 MSU for Windows 7 32-bit (x86) - 137.1 MB

:ar: Download KB4074598 MSU for Windows 7 64-bit (x64) - 233.9 MB

 

[BlueGuy]

Did anyone get an A-V warning [Trojan] with this one? In my update history it is listed as failed.

Will post screenshots as soon as Firefox Portable, the only version I use, finishes its update.

 

[BlueGuy]

Kinda weird, I've heard of this happening to others but this is my first time with this glitch, so I just opted to hide this update because nothing was wrong prior, then wait and see on the March updates.

 

[tonetl]

Did anyone get an A-V warning [Trojan] with this one? In my update history it is listed as failed.

Our antivirus (AVG Business Edition) is also flagging this update as a potential trojan. Specifically, it's being flagged as a SCGeneric1.AOYQ. The location of the object and its name varies with every detection, so I have not been able to create an exception rule. Which antivirus product are you using? Did you happen to notice if this only affects your Windows 7 users? So far we haven't had any Windows 10 users with issues.

 

[BlueGuy]

Our antivirus (AVG Business Edition) is also flagging this update as a potential trojan. Specifically, it's being flagged as a SCGeneric1.AOYQ. The location of the object and its name varies with every detection, so I have not been able to create an exception rule. Which antivirus product are you using? Did you happen to notice if this only affects your Windows 7 users? So far we haven't had any Windows 10 users with issues.

Says right on the screencaps....

AVG Antivirus Free, but as I said, not going to worry about it too much, for come April 2020 or so I'll have to take over the in-depth security of any W7 machine I have on my own.

 

[Brds7t7]

Did anyone get an A-V warning [Trojan] with this one? In my update history it is listed as failed.

Will post screenshots as soon as Firefox Portable, the only version I use, finishes its update.

Could be a false positive. I haven't used AVG for years, but is there a way to report the file to them for inspection?

I use Avast and there is a way to do it. As they are both part of the same company now, I assume they have similar features?

 

[Struggling7]

Just installed it on a 64 bit Dell Laptop running Win 7 pro with MSE antivirus software, got no A-V warning and laptop is functioning normal.

 

[tonetl]

Just installed it on a 64 bit Dell Laptop running Win 7 pro with MSE antivirus software, got no A-V warning and laptop is functioning normal.

I wonder if AVG was already able to push out a definition update correcting the situation. I haven't done anything to block the Windows update from getting installed, yet. Taking the "wait and see what happens" approach.

 

[BlueGuy]

Just installed it on a 64 bit Dell Laptop running Win 7 pro with MSE antivirus software, got no A-V warning and laptop is functioning normal.

Uh-huh..... Looks like the folks at AVG needed a day or two to update their definitions base.

I always update those daily, as well as MalwareBytes. So when I saw your post I un-hid this thread's subject and re-ran WU. This time AVG wasn't triggered, but its not beyond the realm of possibilities,
since M$ servers are public, that some black-hat could get in, if they're clever enough.
I dunno.....I'm just a systems builder, old and rusty on coding.

 

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Virus Total results - CLEAN