Rootkit blamed for Blue Screen patch update snafu

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[ansel12]

Are your antivirus and firewall free versions? Which companies are they?

[peteram]

Looks like I might have dodged this bullet. I found and checked the KB977165.log file and it’s rife with install failures. Apparently there were other things screwed up in my computer that caused it not to install.

[smokingfrog]

I have Trend Micro on 2 machines and F-Secure on another PC that I don’t use very much.

[ansel12]

If they are paid versions then they probably offer some rootkit protection, if you keep them updated.

Windowsdefender deals with root kits and it won’t interfere with any of your antivirus programs.

You can only run one antivirus and one firewall at a time, but anti spyware/malware/rootkit programs don’t interfere with each other.

[mojitojoe]

I back up my entire hard drive once a week, all files are backed up daily. If my hard drive crashes, I just wipe it clean or get another and put my ghost image back on. When I turn it on, it’s just like it was before. I might lose a couple of days, but it sure beats reinstalling windows and all of my software.

[mojitojoe]

I never let them install updates. It pops up and tells me there are new updates. I choose what I want to install, the rest I uncheck and tell it never to ask me about them again. Many of those updates are BS and you do NOT need them.

[ansel12]

I set my updates on automatic and everything goes great.

[mojitojoe]

You do realize that it downloads stuff that you don’t need, right? You have NO way of knowing if what is in those downloads. If you trust Microsoft, so for it. I don’t.

[ansel12]

I use the discarded computers of other people that have theories and do not keep current with their updates.

I take their discards clean all the viruses and spy ware off it, catch up to all the windows updates and service pack three, IE8 and so on and everything works fine for me.