KB958644 keeps kicking me off line.

Is anyone else having trouble with XP's latest critical service patch,
KB958644 ?

Issue 1.

On my wireless laptop last night, a Dell 1505 running XP media SP3, as soon
as I downloaded the patch and rebooted, my intel wireless pro icon went
clear, from a normal operating green, and when I put my cursor over it, it
said that a different program was controlling the intel wireless pro adapter.
I have never seen that before or since, and I use that laptop every night.
If I hadn't just downloaded the patch, I would have been more concerned. It
got on-line fine, and the next time I booted, the normal green intel wireless
icon appeared, without the wierd explanation. That laptop seems to be
running ok today.


Issue II.

This morning when I got on my main machine, a 4 monitor trading machine
running win xp64, SP II, fully patched, I got on line fine like I do every
day. Then the patch KB958644 downloaded from automatic updates and I choose
to install it, rebooted and I could not get on-line. I repaired the
connection from control panel/networking, and I got on once, albeit a slow
broken up connection that lasted a minute or so, then no connection at all.

I run an ATI 4 monitor MV2400 graphic card, 8 gig DDR800 Ram, Dual Core
Intel 930 3 gig processor, and run AVAST antivirus, and spybot. This machine
has been rock solid and is maybe a year old, give or take several months.

I rebooted a second time, and could not get on again, including the windows
update site. I tried rebooting several times and never got on again. Each
time I would go into the control panel/networking and repair my connection.
It seemed like it was successful repairing, but I never got online again, not
even the microsoft update site.

I did a complete system restore from yesterday, rebooted, and my machine was
flying once again. I reinstalled the patch, rebooted, and never got on line
once. I repeated this several times.

Is anyone else having these problems? I had some xp issues with service pack
III on one of my 5 machines, but nothing like this from a critical update,
ever.

Does anyone know what this update is supposed to address? I am guessing it
messes with the internet connection somehow, but I am not current on this
update.

Thanks for any help.

.

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