This crap is ridiculous. I've been a mac avoid-er mainly because they don't have a right mouse button. (I mean, come on!) But I think this clinches it. I can't use my computer because of the black screen of death so I'm sitting here using my parent's mac anyway.

I haven't installed anything on my computer recently except the microsoft update. Even if the update wasn't the problem why should it be so easy for something to make my computer basically a paperweight? Even safemode doesn't work.

I've barely had this computer for a year. If I can't find a fix in a few days, dude, I'm gettin a MAC.

Hi rhalbh, I totally agree with you that it's not windows update that's causing it. Me and my friend has the same PC and same Anti-Virus but apparently he doesn't update regularly unlike me. He also caught the "Black Screen of Death" but not me.

Of course Microsoft denies this saying it is due to some malware or virus infection , and of course they are going to deny it !!... imagine the lawsuits , and bad publicity ( not that they need any help in that area , they do quite well all by themselves ) if they openly admitted they cocked-up ! !

I say "Bullsh*t" to Microsoft !...I've done 5 fresh re-installs of Windows Vista to factory default , which theoretically should have no infections . So somewhere when a fresh re-install logs onto Microsoft website and Microjerks start sending you the latest updates a dodgy update is sent in the mix that gives you 'T...he Black Screen Of Death' .

I've just ran a fix from a Security website I got from 'Computer World' website and hopefully that will resolve the matter , if not and I can't fix the problem by the weekend then come the weekend I will install Linux 'Ubuntu' Operating System' it can't do much worse...besides I know a guy who has been using Linux for over 5 years and he loves it and had no problems .