Black Screen of Death Not Microsoft's Fault

Barence follows up to the ongoing Black Screen of Death Saga by saying "Microsoft says reports of 'Black Screen of Death' errors aren't caused by Windows Updates, as claimed by a British security firm. The software giant claims November's Windows Updates didn't alter registry keys in the way described by Prevx, which said that the Microsoft Patches caused PCs to boot with just a black screen and a Windows Explorer window. Microsoft is now blaming the problem on malware. Prevx has issued a grovelling apology on its own blog."

Comments

Re:Groveling?

[DaveV1.0]

To the rabid anti-Microsoft crowd, any apology is "groveling", regardless of who was wrong.

4 possibilities

[Ilgaz]

1) This thing happens although not as described by that vendor but somehow happens.

2) This is a major conspiracy by a major rival (e.g. Apple) to spread FUD about MS especially after Win 7 release.

3) This is the always mentioned (in theory) "evil virus" that is so good that it can't be even detected by current technology. (theorized since MS DOS)

4) This is a hoax by a large troll organization who can manage to send thousands of people, including slashdot account holders to say "yes, it happened to me too."

Trust me, even Apple can't get away with such a BSOD after update, even the "cult" won't let it. If you claim otherwise, you must be claiming one of the conspiracy theories above. This thing exists, it happens, it is not a major conspiracy and you do no good on behalf of MS when you claim "couple of random people" having it.

The side effect will hit US as usual, as Windows users now have second perfect excuse to turn off automatic updates. The first excuse was a damn legitimate one BTW, check WGA on Google. They installed it like a freaking trojan to their own users computers masking as something else.

ps: Black screen reminds me one of the "punishments" WGA does. Blacking the desktop background. Some routine got falsely triggered? Eh MS?

Re:You've obviously never used a real Linux disty

[Zero__Kelvin]

"Why do you think the typical home user desktop is comparable to a professionally managed system ?"

I don't. I think the typical home system is a piece of garbage designed by Microsoft ;-)

Now a typical Linux home user desktop system, excluding Ubuntu, has all of the security features and settings I described by default.