Black Screen Of Death on 50,000 PCs

Black Screen Of Death on 50,000 PCs

An IT security firm that used IT Support to develop a fix for the so-called "black screen of death" affecting Windows PCs said more than 50,000 users have downloaded the utility in just five days—an indication that the problem is widespread.


"Following the issue of our IT product, which continues to receive significant downloads, we believe that this problem is still affecting a very large number of users in a very diverse range of Windows environments," said Prevx CEO and chief technology officer Mel Morris, in a blog post Wednesday.

Prevx posted a blog indicating that the problem was caused by a recently issued Microsoft security patch. But the IT company later backtracked, stating the cause is still unknown and may be the result of malware or some other security breach.