Black Screen of Death Not Microsoft's Fault

Barence follows up to the ongoing Black Screen of Death Saga by saying "Microsoft says reports of 'Black Screen of Death' errors aren't caused by Windows Updates, as claimed by a British security firm. The software giant claims November's Windows Updates didn't alter registry keys in the way described by Prevx, which said that the Microsoft Patches caused PCs to boot with just a black screen and a Windows Explorer window. Microsoft is now blaming the problem on malware. Prevx has issued a grovelling apology on its own blog."

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Re:malware...

[Conchobair]

The malware is Windows 7.

Re:Really?

[ByOhTek]

so, is that why

$ touch ~/privates
works, but
$ touch /home/some-other-user/privates
gives me a rights error!?

Re:Really?

[cc1984_]

When users are happy to type "sudo rm ...", it doesn't really matter how impervious the system is.

I get "rm: cannot remove `...': No such file or directory"

However, I'm just trying "sudo rm ../." though and it s

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Re:Is that any better excuse?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ubuntu protects you from malware in the same way that a Geo protects you from carjackers.