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Windows patch cripples XP with blue screen, users claim
« on: February 15, 2010, 01:35:32 PM »
Sorry if this have been posted already......

Angry customers blame MS10-015 for Blue Screen of Death, XP reboot hell
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9155419/Windows_patch_cripples_XP_with_blue_screen_users_claim
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Re: Windows patch cripples XP with blue screen, users claim
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2010, 02:03:38 PM »
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Re: Windows patch cripples XP with blue screen, users claim
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2010, 03:48:46 PM »
My XP system and many other never suffered any such BSOD.
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Re: Windows patch cripples XP with blue screen, users claim
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2010, 03:53:31 PM »
It's not the patch that causes the probs, it's a malware-rootkit that has to be present before the patch is installed. If a PC has this rootkit on it and the patch is applied, then the BSODs will occur.
For this time, MS is innocent.  ;D
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Re: Windows patch cripples XP with blue screen, users claim
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2010, 04:03:35 PM »
For additional info, this is what I posted in the other topic earlier today.

Rootkit blamed for Blue Screen patch update snafu

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/15/rootkit_blue_screen_culprit_probably/
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Re: Windows patch cripples XP with blue screen, users claim
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