Blue-screen on Windows XP update : all pawn3d!
The explanation came from Microsoft about the BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) after it’s latest Windows XP security update: a majority of these Windows XP are infected by a rootkit. A Rootkit is a program that install itself over the kernel, and effectively hide it completely from kernel and nearly any Windows existing antivirus!
Put it simply and roughly: most Windows XP, even with antivirus installed and updated, have a rootkit virus that control the computer and enable anyone to get your payment informations (creditcard number, bank access code) or use your computer as a bot for Denial-of-service attacks.
And as I prefer to be direct: the whole security system in Windows, and in the antivirus that you might pay to protect it is just flawed!
PS: Happy to see Microsoft recognizing that antivirus doesn’t protect Windows effectively, and could not do it in any case. My Windows XP PC was pawn3d in 2005 and that’s why I switched to Mac OS X definitively!