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One box in my office got hit with this last week. The only option was booting to CD and walking through an automatic repair.
Holy cow! I had an xp machine go down hard on Friday and I’m running a surface scan on it now (figured it was hardware). Also experienced a Windows 2003 crash this weekend (running chkdsk). I figured it was a climate control issue. Still might be. But this really makes me think....I may have screwed up the computers even worse in attempting to repair them.
I use my own Windows Update Server and approved a slew of updates last Weds.
Yikes! Looks like affected computers my have been infected prior to the update. KB977165 also looks like it is a pretty important update that protects from a serious rootkit MBR invader. Oh, man. This is nasty.
Bad part about it is, I’ve just updated one of my computers for the first time in months. And sure enough, I got the update in question, KB977165. But I seem to be booting fine now. It should be alright, but I hope I don’t end up with the BSOD. But thanks this FR thread, at least I’ll know what to do.
Is there a simple way to check for a rootkit before you install this update/patch?
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“and it was discovered that uninstalling this package unfroze affected machines”
Editors’ day off at El Reg?
I don't know what happened. For some reason it didn't the thread didn't degenerate into a flame war.
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Looks like I might have dodged this bullet. I found and checked the KB977165.log file and it’s rife with install failures. Apparently there were other things screwed up in my computer that caused it not to install.