mrap1

Being the dilligent computer user that I am I downloaded the last MS update to fix the security problem du jour. It installed fine, but I was working on some stuff (pron) so I didn't want to reboot to complete the installation. I turned off the pc later that night thinking every thing was fine. The next day when I turn the thing on, it keeps rebooting. My first thought was that I had somehow acquired the Blaster worm, as I had read that a typical symptom of the worm includes the PC periodically rebooting itself. However, my PC wasn't even logging into Windows (XP), so the worm was pretty much ruled out. I decided to log in into safemode, when I remembered the update I downloaded the night before. I went into add/remove programs and uninstalled the last update. Lo and behold, when I rebooted the PC, the thing worked perfectly.
Lesson learned: Don't install updates the same day they come out.