Updates or Virus?

From: Paul (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/16/04 

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:30:52 -0700

There are know problems with one of the recent updates.
I'm not sure which update caused it but if you remove that
update by going into safe mode all should be fine.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello,
>"New updates are already to install...." message from
systray prompted me to
>update Windows 2000 Server this morning, I clicked it and
it installed
>(without going to Microsoft site) quite a bit files on
the server as I could
>see that the install progress bar moving for about five
minutes. Once it
>finished installing, the computer restarted automatically
and the nightmare
>started from here: it takes forever to start the
window. "Preparing network
>connection...." message is displayed without any sign of
progress except I
>can see the hard drive activities and the light of the
flopy drive flashes a
>few time . Two hours later, I manually shut down the
computer and started it
>by pressing F8, and choosing "Last known good
configuration.....(Cann't
>remember the exact text)". As usual, this menu option has
never worked as it
>is supposed to be in my case. I reboot the machine and
tried safe mode. It
>took much longer to open the safe mode window. When I was
going to uninstall
>the update, it took 2 minites to popup "Start Menu" after
I clicked the
>"Start" button. I can figure out how long I might take to
go to "Add/Remove
>programes" utility and fix the problem.
>
>Can some points out what was going? Are there any viruses
in the updates? Or
>any hacker's program hacked into the update function of
the windows and
>installed any viruses?
>
>Thanks for any solution.
>
>GD
>
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