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“The update day before yesterday prevents PCs from getting stuck in the BSOD loop,” said Roel Schouwenberg, a researcher with Moscow-based antivirus vendor Kaspersky. Security researchers today said that the makers of TDSS have updated the rootkit so that it no longer conflicts with MS10-015.

On Thursday, Microsoft stopped shipping the MS10-015 update, which users had linked to the BSODs, and said it was investigating. Within hours of that update’s release, users flooded Microsoft’s support forum, reporting that their computers had been incapacitated with a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). The rootkit, known by a variety of names - including TDSS, Tidserv and TD元 - was blamed by Microsoft last Friday for causing Windows XP PCs to crash after users applied the MS10-015 security update, one of 13 Microsoft issued a week ago. Hackers behind the rootkit responsible for crippling Windows machines after users installed a Microsoft security patch have updated their malware so that it no longer crashes systems, researchers confirmed today.

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