Microsoft confirms April Windows updates cause backup failures
Microsoft has confirmed that the April 2026 security updates are causing failures in third-party backup applications using the psmounterex.sys driver.
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citation-worthiness 0–10036
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The page has a fresh, newsworthy incident but wastes its citation potential with thin, hedged editorial prose, no named statistics, no author, and near-zero topical depth — an LLM will skip it in favour of the BleepingComputer source it cites.
- Direct answer10/20
- Statistics2/20
- Structure7/15
- Authority3/15
- Freshness11/15
- Topical depth3/15
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- severity.upliftheuristicn/aCVE or advisory identifiers detected — floor raised to at least high.
- severity.upliftheuristicn/aActive exploitation / in-the-wild language detected — floor raised to at least high.
- severity.upliftheuristicn/aCombined zero-day/exploit + ransomware/mass-impact signals → critical.
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