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Of course, that's the Ultimate version. If you have the professional version it's a blue screen. If you have the home edition it's a green screen.
Recent Microsoft security patch affects those using Windows 7, Vista, XP
A Microsoft security update for its new computer operating system, Windows 7 as well as older versions of Windows, is resulting in some users getting a "black screen of death" on their machines, according to reports.
The problem may be tied to security updates recently released by the software maker.
More at MSNBC...
?Black screen of death? for some Windows users - Security- msnbc.com
Of course, that's the Ultimate version. If you have the professional version it's a blue screen. If you have the home edition it's a green screen.
the real case was...
source: Microsoft: Black Screen Of Death due to patches? Umm NOMeanwhile, Prevx have now issued an apology regarding their "findings". Prevx now blame malware for making changes to the registry which causes this behaviour. In a statement on Prevx's company blog, Jacques Erasmus, director of research at Prevx stated "we apologize to Microsoft for any inconvenience our blog may have caused. This has been a challenging issue to identify."
So it was all an utter load of 80ll0x then...
Windows Black Screen Root Cause
Maybe Microsoft will sue Prevx back into the stone age...
lmao.
@offtopic oh but prevx is really good at catching left over virus variants :P better than mbam or w.e.. :P but its not free XD... so I'll pay for a real av instead lol