It seems to have become an habit for Microsoft to release botched patches and updates.

The reason for the panic was some of the information in the update notification.

Luckily, none of the URLs seemed legitimate.

Microsoft botches Windows 7 update and users think it is an hack

They were just random characters, and DNS servers turned up nothing.

Luckily, it was all a misunderstanding.

By evening Microsoft came out with a statement saying that the it had released a half cooked patch.

Microsoft hacked? Weird garbled Windows 7 update makes users believe so!

It announced, We incorrectly published a test update and are in the process of removing it.

There was actually no update to install anyway, so its all harmless in the end.

So, it seems there was no update.

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source: www.techworm.net