Comments on: Latest Microsoft Patches Cause Black Screen of Death

By: Glenn E.

Glenn E. — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:40:32 +0000

The latest claim (by Prevx?) is that some malware was involved. And it’s presence effected the ACL patch. But that’s doesn’t make much sense to me, if people other than Prevx have the same problem. What was the malware?

By: R.O.P.

R.O.P. — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:47:45 +0000

Damn! I think the Prevx fix worked. I have been up and running for 45 minutes and no black screen.

By: Tilly Devine

Tilly Devine — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:22:35 +0000

KSOD? (As in Graphic Design talk for black aka CMYK)

Ok, to geeky.

By: Eric Davidson

Eric Davidson — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:45:42 +0000

I wonder if Microsoft only tests their software on top of the line PC’s before rolling it out… seems like they should try testing their patches, etc, on lower level (realistic) PCs

By: R.O.P.

R.O.P. — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:58:52 +0000

I did a little research and found out MS is claiming this is happening to computers with with ATI 2400 series graphics cards. Oddly I have an ATI 4650 in my PC. Coincidence? I think not. I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that MS is trying to diminish the issue. The next Apple ad should be very entertaining.

By: bill

bill — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:38:13 +0000

I’m speechless!

Is this a JOKE?

How can you miss this in testing?

Did they do any testing?

By: Rabble Rouser

Rabble Rouser — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:08:40 +0000

I’m a PC and, I told Microsoft to get rid of the Blue Screen of Death, so Windows 7 was my idea!

So now you can blame all of us who said that Windoze 7 was our idea for the BlSOD!

WTG Microsoft, plausible deniability FTW!

By: Guyver

Guyver — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:54:44 +0000

Black is the new Blue.

By: pedro

pedro — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:24:25 +0000

MS is soooo effed-up.

By: R.O.P.

R.O.P. — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:09:10 +0000

From the description given, I am having this exact problem with one of my PC’s. I will have to give this thing a try. I probably won’t get to it for a couple of days, but I will report back with the results. Thanks for posting this article.

By: Tippis

Tippis — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:11:38 +0000

Good. About time that windows programmers join the rest of the world and learn to actually program within the confines of the OS.

It’s the same problem as when we moved from 95/98 to 2k and things crashed for no apparent reason (apart from the software being written by clowns) and MS getting the blame for it, or when we moved to Vista and people threw a fit over UAC, when it was in fact the programmers who were completely clueless about how to write for a limited-scope environment because they had become used to can-do-anything coding they could use when running on XP admin accounts.

By: Buffet

Buffet — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:11:21 +0000

#3 Jetfire – Sad but true (and strangely funny).

By: soundwash

soundwash — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:03:37 +0000

This was probably done to create some work/sales in the IT/PC sector..

-Much like the old Michelangelo boot sector virus, which activates on March 6th, would be “tipped off to the media” a week or two prior which resulted in AV software being sold out at places like CompUsa etc..

I mean come’on, what idiot does not not know modifying ACL flags can wreak (simple to fix) havoc on a system.

(um, that would be a microsoft idiot in particular)

-s

By: Zybch

Zybch — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:22:09 +0000

So, anyone know of anybody actually experiencing this ‘issue’ except the customers of badly written security software produced by Prevx in the UK?
Just askin’ is all…

This sounds like the Prevx boss just wants to divert attention away from his coders (who can’t make their software work without using illegal calls to the OS).

By: srgothard

srgothard — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:14:15 +0000

This explains the phone call on Thanksgiving day from my Grandfather about his PC updating and then crashing.