Microsoft re-releases Windows OLE patch KB 3146706 with little explanation

From InfoWorld: Last week I wrote about an odd security update, KB 3146706, that appeared to be bricking pirated copies of Windows 7 and locking horns with Microsoft's own EMET 5.5 malware blocker. Details are hazy, but apparently Microsoft released MS 16-044/KB 3146706 on April 12 as a "checked" Important update. Since it was checked, those who ran Windows Update or had enabled Automatic Update got the patch installed, sometimes to deleterious effect.

Shortly after the patch was released, the auto update "check" disappeared from most -- if not all -- Windows 7 computers. Customers could install the patch, but only if they manually checked it first.

KB 3146706 also raised a storm of complaints, particularly in China, among people using a particular pirated version of Windows 7 known by the name Ghost -- no doubt in reference to its origins as a Norton Ghost copy of a heavily modified (and sometimes malware infested) version of Win7.

Suddenly, without any notification and not much explanation, KB 3146706 is back again. It appeared, checked, on many computers yesterday afternoon. (I have reports that on some systems it still isn't checked.)

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