[NormB]

Here's what I did. It was a pain.
Not knowing what was going on, I first reinstalled IE6.
After rebooting, the machine was stable enough to run windows update and apply SP4.
Then reboot, and Apply all other patches.
I think at that point my machine was clean.
Reboot again and check symantec for fixblast and run it just to be sure.
Lastly set up a software firewall.
Hope this helps.

[New Horizon]

Microsoft Windows Update Site this morning:

HTTP/1.1 Server Too Busy

Terrific.