Dave-H

If Microsoft Update says you're fully patched with up to date patches, and everything in Windows Explorer is working as it should be, I don't see any reason to uninstall any of them. In your position I would completely uninstall Malwarebytes and see if the system is then stable, with no BSODs or freezes. If it is, then try reinstalling it.

I use a driver "TCP Half Open Limited Patcher (TCP-Z)" to provide the same function. It's from someone called "deepxw". It's also still working fine.

@FranceBB If @pixelsearch2's system is XP, rather than POSReady, there's obviously no point in him reporting this to Microsoft. What's needed is for as many people as possible with genuine licensed actual POSReady systems to report it, as MS are actually shipping a buggy update (three times!) to a still supported operating system!

The only satisfactory answer at the moment to this is to message @heinoganda who can provide a modified KB4134651-v2 patch which contains all the latest files except for oleaut32.dll, which will be the last properly working version. As far as we know, this does not have any security implications.

The issues are not immediately obvious. If you look at the properties of a shortcut and select the "Find Target" button, does it work? It not working is one of the symptoms of the bug(s) in the recent versions of oleaut32.dll.

Thanks, all now installed and working fine!

Thanks for the heads up! Will you be providing us with a workaround for this again?

Hear, hear!

Thanks!

The last "!", the name mismatch, you can get rid of by going to Control Panel>Internet Options>Advanced>Security and unticking "Warn about certificate address mismatch".

Yes, I've been having problems with the e-mail notifications ever since the recent server crash. I'm getting some again now, but I'm still not convinced that it's working as it should. I've had a few e-mails about posts from a couple of days previously, which should have come through straight away of course.

Are you saying that certificates should never be manually deleted from the lists in the Internet Options>Content tab? Sorry I'd forgotten about the delroots.sst you gave me, but I have still got it saved! No more errors as yet, but if they return I'll try the procedures again.

Ah thanks, I was wrong about the registry entries in that case. I just assumed because the options were already ticked when I added them to the interface that the options were already enabled. Obviously not! The wrong security certificates picked up by howsmyssl.com are mentioned in the thread here. I don't think they're anything to worry about, but somebody said they had deleted them with no dire consequences! What are the errors you're seeing? Are they name mismatches?

If I understand things correctly, you don't have to add the registry entries to enable TLS 1.2 in IE8, it's already enabled by the updates. The registry entries just add tick boxes to the Internet Options interface to allow you to disable it if you want to for any reason. howsmyssl.com will confirm whether it's enabled or not.

I was impressed this morning when I had an e-mail from PayPal saying that they would be blocking browsers they consider insecure very soon, that when I tried their test on IE8, it now said it was fine, without HTTPSProxy enabled!

Thanks, I did actually try most of that yesterday, including toggling off and on all the settings I need on and re-saving every change, and this morning I found that some e-mails had come though. Again some were for posts which had been made a couple of days ago, so it looks like they were delayed for some reason. I'll see how it goes now.

Thanks, I have run the updater recently, but I went into the Internet Options Content tab and deleted a huge number of expired certificates, some expired for many years, and then ran it again. I was surprised to see that a lot of the expired certificates had come back again, but I guess that's normal and expected! I am surprised that the errors have started happening occasionally on my netbook too now, which has never even had the certificates updater installed, let-alone run, but maybe i now need to do that! I'll see how it goes now.

Still not working! I got one notification e-mail a couple of days ago, but it was for a post from several days before that! I've checked all my settings, and everything seems to still be correct. Any ideas what might be wrong anyone?

Thanks Den! I don't think the article applies here as it's mainly about having no internet connection, which I have of course! I have tried re-registering those files, I'll see if it makes any difference. They all registered fine immediately, except for Initpki.dll, which only registered successfully after a long delay for some reason.

I'm still getting the strings of errors in my Application Event Log, as you can see from this. It's also started happening on my netbook as well now! The yellow warning shown states "Reached crypt32 threshold of 50 events and will suspend logging for 60 minutes"!

Ah, thanks very much, that's exactly what I mean! I wonder why I'm not getting any then, it's worked for years, and suddenly, nothing.

After the forum server crash, I got e-mail notifications back for a few days, although most seemed to be going into my spam filter for some reason, but I'm now not getting any notifications at all. I've checked my user settings, and they still seem to be correct. Is anyone else still getting notifications?

Ah thanks, I hadn't realised it was a kernel update, so that will indeed be the problem!

OK, thanks guys, so it looks as if KB4230450 is enough. As I said earlier, I've never installed KB4316682, but I did have KB4019276 already installed. https://www.howsmyssl.com shows TLS 1.2 working in IE8 with HTTPSProxy switched off (albeit with the certificate errors already mentioned) so I guess it's all OK. BTW, sorry for the late response, am I the only one not getting any e-mail notifications from the forum now? I've checked my forum settings and they are correct, but I had no notification of these recent posts.

Is anyone else having trouble with KB4230467 apparently installing OK but then asking to be installed again, over and over? It's happening on one of my machines but not the other, so I'm wondering if it's the oem problem again.