Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 cumulative update breaks the Google Chrome browser on systems protected by a range of software, including Cisco, WatchGuard EDR, and Malwarebytes.<\/p>\n
According to Bleeping Computer<\/a><\/strong>, Windows admins and users have reported issues launching the browser after installing the KB5027231 update.<\/p>\n While it should be possible to resolve the issue by uninstalling the update, some admins have reported that this is impossible via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) due to a “catastrophic error”.<\/p>\n “Rolled KB5027231 to a bunch of users, and I have Chrome broken everywhere,” one Windows admin said on Reddit<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n “Attempting to rollback via wusa[.exe \u2014 the standalone Windows update installer utility] shows a ‘catastrophic error’ in the Event Viewer, and WSUS shows I cannot roll this back.”<\/p>\n Last week, Malwarebytes confirmed<\/a><\/strong> that the issue affects customers using its anti-malware products. It said an anti-exploit module issue was to blame and advised that users disable Chrome as a protected app.<\/p>\n “On June 13, 2023, Microsoft’s KB5027231 update installed on Windows 11 caused a conflict between Google Chrome and exploit protection, resulting in browser crashes,” it said.<\/p>\n While affected users never see the Google Chrome interface after launching the app, the process runs in the background but won’t load fully due to the conflict.<\/p>\n WatchGuard and Cisco Secure Endpoint users have also started reporting that Chrome won’t launch after installing the update.<\/p>\n “We deploy Secure Endpoint 8.1.7 to our few thousand devices, and we started getting a mountain of reports this morning that Google Chrome would not appear on the screen after attempting to open it,” one admin said<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n “With a little trial & error, I found that killing the Secure Endpoint service or uninstalling Secure Endpoint will allow Chrome to open again.”<\/p>\n It appears as though Cisco Secure Endpoint has a similar issue to that of Malwarebytes, with the Exploit Protection engine blocking Google Chrome from launching.<\/p>\n WatchGuard confirmed<\/a><\/strong> the issue on Friday, 15 June 2023.<\/p>\n Windows admins say uninstalling the update via Windows Server Update Services is impossible due to a “catastrophic error”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":456995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[913,167,1137,31208,123,80377,70233],"class_list":["post-496791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-cisco","tag-google","tag-google-chrome","tag-malwarebytes","tag-microsoft","tag-watchguard","tag-windows-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496925,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496791\/revisions\/496925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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