IT Support issues are on the rise as Windows 7 users are hit by this latest problem, a plain black screen when they log on. The company that initially highlighted the fault, Prevx an IT Company, said that Microsoft’s own security updates – code-named KB976098 and KB915597 – were probably responsible for the issue, but has since admitted that they were mistaken, and issued an apology.
Microsoft says it now thinks the problem is caused by some form of malware. It’s apparently only affecting a handful of users, but the fact remains that nobody is known to be safe. ‘Black’ is the new blue when it comes to ’screens of death’
The most famous appearance of the Blue Screen of Death was in 1998, when it afflicted Bill Gates while the Microsoft chief executive was demonstrating Windows 98 at a trade show in Las Vegas. The resulting applause from his audience was, as Wikipedia puts it, “thunderous”.
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