Yours is the second such post I've read, but since everybody is posting
anonymously, I don't know if they are different people, of course. This
does sound like a disaster, and I'm sorry it happened. However, I would
strongly recommend getting every critical update Microsoft offers. I do
that on every machine I administer, and the number of times that any ill
effect is caused by a security patch is something I can count on two
fingers, dating back to Windows NT 3.1 days.
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