It's always possible that the update had your computer 'phone home' to Microsoft and it could have thought your software was pirated and shut you down. I had a valid copy and their warning said it was invalid. All the sudden, my programs began to cease functioning properly and continued to deteriorate until my brother did a system restore from the restore disc. I never do microsoft updates anymore and plan to switch to Ubuntu.
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Date: 2011-02-16 11:45 am (UTC)