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Microsoft Blames Rootkits for Security Update Crashes

February 19, 2010 |

Computing

Earlier this month, Microsoft released a patch for its entire supported line of Windows operating systems—that'd be Windows 2000 all the way through Windows 7—which included a fix for a security vulnerability that had been lurking in its Virtual DOS Machine for some 17 years—a record by almost any standard. The problem was that the security update led to problems on some Windows XP machines: users would install the… Read More