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Strange things happening with the Black Hole
I purchased a legal Windows 7 CD from Amazon and wanted to install it on a PC I was rebuilding. It installed and activated just fine by phone. The disk says it's intended for refurbished PC's. I started having trouble with the first program I tried to install, Malwarebytes, it stopped working before it finished installing. The same thing with Reg Cure. then program after program stopped working in one form or another. I decided to connect to the internet and run Windows update. That wouldn't work either. When I checked the list for any updates that might have made it through I found that 1 had been installed during the OS install, KB976902, websites call it the Black Hole. It was put out November 20th 2010 to stop piracy of MS Operating Systems.
In a short time the hard drives were disabled and all the browsers stopped working and the PC became useless. I thought there must be something wrong with the PC and installed the new OS on a different one and it did the same thing. Before it became unusable I checked Windows update and there was that same KB976902. This time the PC hadn't even been online.
I now have 2 pieces of junk that were great working PC's just a few hours before. Is this something Microsoft put out or is it Malware? Microsoft doesn't list a Windows update with that number.