wierd problem after update

[Dave Gower]

As soon as I saw Microsoft's announcement of new updates a couple of days
ago I downloaded them onto my XP SP2 machine (2.4G, 265M RAM). Since then,
I've had this strange message. It happens every time I turn the computer on
(I'm on dial-up so I power down between sessions). It says "Generic Host
Process for Win32 Services encountered a problem and needed to close". It
gives an event time as the last time I turned the machine off. It asks me to
send a report to MS, which I did the first time it happened but not since.

The machine works fine otherwise - shuts down and starts fine, no problems
as far as I can see. I did a Google on this and saw some comments about
possible spyware, so I ran my Spybot but to no effect.

It's annoying and a little worrying. Any comments or suggestions?

 

[Dave Gower]

I just noticed Joyce's similar complaint (I looked this morning and didn't
see anything and didn't check again before posting). Looks like this update
may be unearthing previously hidden spyware. Should I execute the same
solution?

 

[kapil [MSFT]]

Hi Dave,
The following KB points to a similar issue ( though not
related to SP2) and contains some information as what may lead to this
behavior.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;821690

Also you can try to lookup the event viewer to get more information. The
event viewer can be started by Start>Run>Eventvwr

Hope this helps.