{"id":77,"date":"2010-06-14T08:26:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T14:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reallyuseit.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2010-06-17T09:25:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T15:25:10","slug":"cant-install-windows-updates-after-spyware-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reallyuseit.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t install Windows Updates after spyware removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an issue where a computer wouldn&#8217;t install windows updates after I removed some spyware and viruses on it. Specifically, I couldn&#8217;t get the computer to install one of the KB packs and it blue screened during a Windows XP Service Pack 3 install (scary). Luckily, Windows reverted itself correctly to SP2. After that scare I booted into safe mode and ran SP3. Success! Now windows updates are applying successfully again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an issue where a computer wouldn&#8217;t install windows updates after I removed some spyware and viruses on it. Specifically, I couldn&#8217;t get the computer to install one of the KB packs and it blue screened during a Windows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reallyuseit.com\/?p=77\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spywareantivirus","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reallyuseit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reallyuseit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reallyuseit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reallyuseit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reallyuseit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reallyuseit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/www.reallyuseit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reallyuseit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reallyuseit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reallyuseit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}