This week, while hundreds of people throughout Beaverton, Portland and elsewhere restarted their computers and got a Blue Screen of Death, Microsoft quickly back peddled on the update they released. They started researching the issue, yanked the update, and now have stated that malware crashed thousands of computers across the world.
Microsoft stated that removing the offending malware caused the computer to be able to boot. This means that if your computer rebooted, blue screened then rebooted again (rinse and repeat), you had a malware infection you didn’t know about.
Read more about this issue on PCWorld.
The affected file is the atapi.sys file, which a lot of computer repair places have seen infected and causing problems recently, but a lot of people just didn’t notice. If you’re still having problems with this isuse, give Protocol16 a call and we’ll be more than happy to help out.
Justin
