Seriously. Amidst the 1.3 trillion "black screen error" posts recently published on every blog in the Milky Way, Ed's breakdown today was the first to really dig in to the reality behind Prevx's claims that recent Windows 7 patches were rendering systems totally unusable.

You might have wondered why you didn't read about the "story" earlier this week on Download Squad. We cover a lot of Windows 7 news, after all, and this sure sounded like news. But it wasn't. And like Ed, we wanted to see what shook loose once Microsoft's engineers had a chance to examine the facts.

The Internet Storm Center couldn't find any evidence to back up Prevx's claim. Scott Fulton of BetaNews found it odd that Prevx offered a quick-fix .exe download even though they admitted not having a complete understanding of what was causing the issue.

Read more: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/12/03/prevx-says-lol-sry-to-microsoft-re-black-screen-of-death-upro/