“A rootkit infection may be the cause of a Windows Blue Screen of Death issue experienced by Windows XP users who applied the latest round of Microsoft patches. It appears that the affected Windows PCs had the rootkit infection prior to deploying the Microsoft patches. Researcher Patrick W. Barnes, investigating the issue, has isolated the infection to the Windows atapi.sys file, a driver used by Windows to connect hard drives and other components. Barnes identified the infection as the Tdss-rootkit, which surfaced last November and has been spreading quickly, creating zombie machines for botnet activity.”
Patrick’s Article
(Patrick’s site is currently being “slashdot-alanched” and is unavailable.)
If this is true and you experience this crash after updating you will need to take steps to clean this infection off your computer. This post will be updated as information develops.
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