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'Important' patch 936357 is causing crashes

Woody Leonhard

By Woody Leonhard

Microsoft's patch for Intel's Core 2 Duo chips, patch 936357, is locking up people's computers and making them unbootable.

If you have Automatic Updates turned on, or you recently applied all of Microsoft's recent Patch Tuesday updates, you probably have the bad patch, so follow along with me on what to do about it.

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