Microsoft claims the XP BSOD problem is a rootkit issue, not the security patch

While I'd like to say they were right, I cannot. I have had 3 machines in the shop this week with the dreaded blue screen of death. I hand removed the update in question and all three machines booted normally.

Of course after the Microsoft announcement yet again that it "isn't" their fault, I ran several anti-virus scanners, malware detectors and rootkit detectors. I then kept the clients machine several days and found no issues. The computers were again working as expected.

Sorry Microsoft, but in my humble opinion you are wrong...