Updates or Virus?

From: Sue (suburns_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 06:12:57 -0700

This happened to me just last night.

Only I can't even go into Safe Mode. What can I do?

Thank you!

Sue
>-----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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