
We are aware that some of our customers may be experiencing difficulties after applying security update 2823324, which we provided in security bulletin MS13-036 on Tuesday, April 9. In a blog post on the Microsoft Security Response Center, the company blamed the problem on conflicts with third-party software: The problem appears to be connected with Update 2823324 in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-036, a security update for the Windows file system kernel-mode driver (ntfs.sys). The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xC000003a (0x00000000 0x00000000). Users who experienced problems described how they saw fatal system errors like the following: Microsoft has advised all users of Windows 7 (and the server version, Windows Server 2008) who installed a security update on Tuesday to uninstall it, after some customers found their computers would not restart or applications would not load.
