Submission + - Windows blue screen may be rootkit infection (techtarget.com)
L3sPau1 writes: A rootkit infection may be the cause of a Windows Blue Screen of Death issue experienced by people who applied the latest round of Microsoft patches. It appears that the affected Windows PCs had the rootkit infection prior to deploying the Microsoft patches. Researchers investigating the issue have isolated the infection to the Windows atapi.sys file, a driver used by Windows to connect hard drives and other components. An expert identified the infection as the Tdss-rootkit, which surfaced last November and has been spreading quickly, creating zombie machines for botnet activity.
