Should have kept him on staff
A bloke who used to work for Microsoft as a security manager has come up with a tool designed to detect and fix PCs that may be susceptible to "endless reboots" if updated to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3).
Jesper Johansson now works at Amazon.com, and posted a link to the tool on his blog yesterday, beating his former employer and Hewlett-Packard to come up with it.
Johansson's solution uses a 16K VBScript to check whether the PC is running a processor from AMD; and if so, examines the Windows registry to see if a device driver meant for Intel-based machines is set to load. If it is, it will offer you an option to disable it.
Users can run the script from the command line.
More here.
