This update now appears unchecked, but after doing the rest, I installed this. Upon restart, I got a black screen with cursor in the middle. Hit power button, that put it in hibernate, hit the button again and this time I got the normal desktop but with a message telling me I have a cable problem and so my screen res has been downgraded. The help link provided took me to some BS about the DP standard. Did a system restore and everything is working fine, there is no cable problem. Google search shows this issue on more than 1 forum. The MS forum has 12 pages of denial, (I did not read them all, I get ADD, just skipped to the last page and nothing changed). Folks seem to be hiding the update as unusable. Be warned if you do the update and have issues. I'm running Win 7 Pro 64-bit. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...1ae-b2fc-c2979c1c03e1?page=1&tm=1376924563220
KB2859537 breaks rootkit. Microsoft Update KB2859537 prevents PC from booting if Rootkit is present http://jameswatt.me/2013/08/18/micr...events-pc-from-booting-if-rootkit-is-present/ and I have installed KB2859537 successfully https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-063
Read the article but still not really clear what exactly would qualify as a rootkit. Very little installed on my trading machine, only stuff that comes in would be Firefox updates and the like. I don't even have Adobe Reader on it. Only thing I can think of that might fit the bill was awhile back I could not connect to my ISP and tech asked me to load a remote access program. I did but something stopped the connection from working, so we did not use it in the end. I'll try looking for it using the software he mentioned, hopefully it's not a false positive that ends up breaking something good.
Just finished the rootkit scan, fastest scan I've ever had on any machine, presumably because I've kept the junk out. No rootkit present. Since I've shut down everything I'm letting the Win Mal Software removal tool do its thing. Should be ok too, don't do much browsing on this machine, only google to get necessary info.
Downloaded and ran Malwarebytes as well, all clear so whatever the problem was its not rootkit or Trojans. Anyway, it's nice to know the machine is clean.